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US woman arrested, accused of targeting young boys in $1.7M sextortion scheme

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FBI has warned of significant spike in teen sextortion in 2024.

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"The sextortion involved at least 12,600 victims—primarily boys—and led to at least 20 suicides."

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- Ho-ly shit. What the everloving fuck 20 suicides?
  
  12,000? That's multiple people a day jesus fuck
  
  -edit Wait, was this for all cases because I read it initially as one woman did it
  
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  She was part of an international ring that led to the suicides with that number of victims
  
  Edit: I’m wrong, that’s the sum of the FBIs and homeland security findings over two years
  
  "From October 2021 to March 2023, the FBI and Homeland Security Investigations received over 13,000 reports of online financial sextortion of minors," the FBI's announcement said. "The sextortion involved at least 12,600 victims—primarily boys—and led to at least 20 suicides."
  
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- What the fuck?
  
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  Don't kill yourself over nudes. Literally no one else cares.
  
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We'll see what actually happens. I'm cynical in thinking any significant time warranting the crime will take place. I wouldn't be surprised if the woman identified only gets 10 years for all of the death and despair caused when people have done much less harm and certainly in a smaller scope gets more years.

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- It's uncommon for women to pull this type of crap. She deserves a death sentence. Just getting rid of her is the best way we can protect the children/teens.
  
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  A death sentence? That's way overboard. Our justice system is too punitive. It should be about rehabilitation, not punishment.
  
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Black Mirror predicted this?

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- Probably
  
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  they did. although in that episode the victim was watching csam
  
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Absolutely horrific and, apparently, it worked for them for quite some time and generated a lot of money for them. You wouldn't think targeting minors would be a money-making scam. Where were these kids getting the money from?

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- I imagine parents got involved in some cases
  
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We'll see what actually happens. I'm cynical in thinking any significant time warranting the crime will take place. I wouldn't be surprised if the woman identified only gets 10 years for all of the death and despair caused when people have done much less harm and certainly in a smaller scope gets more years. Unless you're screwing over rich people, then you get the book thrown at you hard.

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