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Basically what happened is that somebody posed as a hot girl on Instagram and manipulated him into exchanging nude pictures. Once the scammers got the pictures they asked for $300 in exchange for them not spreading the pics all over social media. He paid them, but then they asked for $1000. He couldn't pay them that much so he offed himself.
I went to high school with his Dad. He was a good kid from a nice family. Athlete, good grades, never in trouble, on his way to college for sports medicine, etc... The FBI are involved now and the story is starting to get a bit of national attention. The family is allowing the media to use their late son's name and make the story public in order to spread awareness for this sort of thing. For those of you with kids please talk to them about this, as it may end up saving their life.
Here are some links to the story...
https://fox11online.com/news/local/...sextortion-sparks-needed-conversation-locally
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...rs-falling-victim-online-sextortion-plot.html
https://www.dailypress.net/news/loc...unding-upper-peninsula-teen-suicide-released/
I went to high school with his Dad. He was a good kid from a nice family. Athlete, good grades, never in trouble, on his way to college for sports medicine, etc... The FBI are involved now and the story is starting to get a bit of national attention. The family is allowing the media to use their late son's name and make the story public in order to spread awareness for this sort of thing. For those of you with kids please talk to them about this, as it may end up saving their life.
Here are some links to the story...
https://fox11online.com/news/local/...sextortion-sparks-needed-conversation-locally
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...rs-falling-victim-online-sextortion-plot.html
https://www.dailypress.net/news/loc...unding-upper-peninsula-teen-suicide-released/
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