When a young man committed suicide last year after falling victim to a financially motivated sextortion plot, his grief-stricken father went on a crusade to help the FBI track down the scamming suspects on another continent.
The FBI defines financially motivated sextortion as: “When predators pose as someone else online to coerce victims into taking and sending sexually explicit photos and videos — and then immediately demand payment or threaten to release the photo to the victim’s family and friends.”
Within days of his son’s suicide, the father discovered “suspicious banking transactions” to an unknown phone number from his son’s Zelle account.
In 2023, a young Pennsylvania man fell victim to a financially motivated sextortion scheme. He allegedly believed he had met a girl online on Instagram, Google, and Snapchat. He reportedly sent the girl sexually explicit images of himself, according to USA Today.
But two men from Nigeria purportedly posed as a girl to financially extort the young man. […]
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