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Sextortion is the fastest-growing scam affecting teenagers globally
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2llzppyx05o
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Many of the scammers appear to be from Nigeria - where authorities are defending their actions and are under pressure to do more.It has been two years since Jenn Buta’s son Jordan killed himself after being targeted by scammers who lured him into sending them explicit images of himself, and then tried to blackmail him.She still can’t bring herself to change anything about his bedroom.The 17-year-old’s basketball jerseys, clothes, posters and bedsheets are just how he left them.The curtains are closed, and the door is shut to keep memories of him that only a parent would understand.“It still smells like him.
I’m just not ready to part with his stuff,” she said.If you’ve been affected by the issues in this story, help and support is available via the BBC Action LineJordan was contacted by sextortion scammers on Instagram.They pretended to be a pretty girl his age and flirted with him, sending sexual pictures to coax him into sharing explicit photos of himself.They then blackmailed him for hundreds of pounds to stop them sharing the pictures online to his friends.Jordan sent as much money as he could and warned the sextortionists he would kill himself if they spread the images.
Jenn is a now high-profile campaigner on TikTok – using the account Jordan set up for her – to raise awareness about the dangers of sextortion to young people.
Two other men are on trial in Lagos, after the suicides of a 15-year-old boy in the US and a 14-year-old in Canada.In January, US cyber-company Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) highlighted a web of Nigerian TikTok, YouTube and Scribd accounts sharing tips and scripts for sextortion.
They just see their colleagues making money.”African human rights charity Devatop has said the current methods of handling sextortion in Nigeria have failed to effectively curb the practice.
Uche Ifeanyi Henry said his officers were “hitting criminals hard” and said it is “laughable” that anyone should accuse Nigeria of not taking sextortion crime seriously.
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