Law enforcement calls the scam 'sextortion,' and investigators in the US have seen an explosion in complaints from victims leading the FBI to ramp up a campaign to warn parents from coast to coast
Within hours, the 17-year-old, straight-A student and Boy Scout had died by suicide. "Somebody reached out to him pretending to be a girl, and they started a conversation," his mother, Pauline Stuart, told CNN, fighting back tears as she described what happened to her son days after she and Ryan had finished visiting several colleges he was considering attending after graduating high school. The online conversation quickly grew intimate, and then turned criminal.
According to Costin, many of the sextortion scams reported to the FBI are determined to be from criminals on the African continent and in Southeast Asia. Federal investigators are working with their law enforcement counterparts around the world, Costin said, to help identify and arrest perpetrators who are targeting kids online. Ryan Last and his mother, Pauline Stuart. One challenge for the FBI: many victims of sextortion do not report the incidents to law enforcement.
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