Sextortion Scams Are Driving Teen Boys to Suicide (www.bloomberg.com)

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[-] Gigan@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

What horrible people. Hearing their callous disregard for their victims is infuriating.

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[-] inetknght@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 months ago

Absolutely. If you're passionate about it then you might want to learn more about how the scams are enabled by modern technology's complete disregard for security and privacy.

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[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Based on the article, they seem to be following scripts. It's unclear how well they even understand English.

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