'It’s cruel’– parents of deceased UK teenager beg Nigerian scammers to stop sextortion

'It’s cruel’– parents of deceased UK teenager beg Nigerian scammers to stop sextortion.

Mark and Ros Dowey, parents of a British teenager who took his own life after falling victim to sextortion, have appealed to perpetrators to stop the act.
Murray, their 16-year-old son, committed suicide after he was tricked by scammers from Nigeria who posed as a girl, into sending compromising pictures of himself.
In September, a US court sentenced two Nigerian brothers who targeted a 17-year-old in a sextortion scam, to 17 years and six months in prison.

Jordan DeMay killed himself less than six hours after he started talking to the brothers who pretended to be a girl his age and flirted with him on Instagram.

The prosecution was the first successful measure against sextortion in the US, where it is a rapidly growing cybercrime, often linked to Nigeria.

Murray’s parents also blamed social media companies for not doing enough to protect children online.

In July, Meta, the parent company of WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram, said it had removed 63,000 accounts in Nigeria linked to sextortion scams.

Last month, Meta said it deleted another 1,600 groups linked to ‘Yahoo Boys’ from its platform.


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