'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 pare...