Federal officials announced that four men from the Ivory Coast, a country in West Africa, were arrested after about three years after a 17 -year -old boy fell in the “Sixstore” fraud.
Ryan, a senior high school in San Jose, was his last life in February 2022 a few hours after the interview with a person on Facebook, he believed that a woman, according to the CNN network, sent him a naked picture and asked one of him.
He immediately called for blackmail at $ 5,000 of the teenager, and threatened to send his nude picture to friends and family. The price was eventually reduced to $ 150 when he told them the last time he could not pay all of this.
His mother, Pauline Stewart, who described her son as a “very confident person”, said that the thieves “continued to chase him” even after he paid Los Angeles Times mentioned.
In a suicide note, it was reported that the teenager apologized for the ordeal, his mother told the times that her son was terrified of what the explicit image of his family would do.
Officials said the blackmail, Alfred Cassi, was arrested in Ivory Coast in April, adding that the man still had blackmail in February 2022 that was sent to the teenage victim on his phone.
Three additional men were arrested for money laundering. Federal officials said the Quartet targeted thousands of victims throughout Canada and Europe.
A fifth member of the “Sextinter” crew, Jonathan Cassi, was arrested in Los Angeles in December 2022, was convicted of extortion in the state court and sentenced to 18 months in prison.
Since the Ivory Coast does not contain the delivery of its citizens, the four detainees will face charges related to electronic crimes in their country, according to Associated Press.
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