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  2. Two Nigerian hackers accused of targeting American children ...

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    Sexual extortion, or sextortion, involves persuading victims to send explicit photos online then threatening to make the images public if the victim doesn’t pay money or engage in sexual favors.

  3. Meta takes down thousands of Facebook accounts running ...

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    The targeted victims are primarily boys between the ages of 14 to 17, but the FBI said any child can become a victim. Meta said its investigation found that the majority of the scammers' attempts did not succeed and mostly targeted adult men in the U.S., but added that it did see “some” try to target minors , which Meta says it reported to ...

  4. Meta takes down thousands of Facebook, Instagram accounts ...

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    Meta said Wednesday that it has taken down about 63,000 Instagram accounts in Nigeria running sexual extortion scams and has removed thousands of Facebook groups and pages that were trying to ...

  5. Emmanuel Nwude - Wikipedia

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    Emmanuel Nwude Odinigwe, popularly known as Owelle of Abagana, is a Nigerian advance-fee fraud expert artist and former Director of Union Bank of Nigeria. He is known for defrauding Nelson Sakaguchi, a Director at Brazil's Banco Noroeste based in São Paulo, of $242 million: $191 million in cash and the remainder in the form of outstanding interest, between 1995 and 1998.

  6. Meta takes down thousands of Facebook, Instagram accounts ...

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    The targeted victims are primarily boys between the ages of 14 to 17, but the FBI said any child can become a victim. Meta said its investigation found that the majority of the scammers' attempts did not succeed and mostly targeted adult men in the U.S., but added that it did see “some” try to target minors , which Meta says it reported to ...

  7. Meta takes down 63,000 accounts linked to sextortion scams ...

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    In addition to the 63,000 Instagram accounts, Meta said it also took down 7,200 assets from Facebook, including 1,300 accounts, 200 pages, and 5,700 groups based in Nigeria dedicated to providing ...

  8. Hushpuppi - Wikipedia

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    11 years. Ramon Olorunwa Abbas (born 11 October 1982), commonly known as Hushpuppi, Hush, or Ray Hushpuppi is a Dubai-based Nigerian Instagram influencer, self-acclaimed real estate mogul and convicted felon. [1] He was sentenced in the United States to 11 years for conspiracy to launder money obtained from business email compromise frauds and ...

  9. 419eater.com - Wikipedia

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    419eater.com is a scam baiting website which focuses on advance-fee fraud. The name 419 comes from "419 fraud", another name for advance fee fraud, and itself derived from the relevant section of the Nigerian criminal code. The website founder, Michael Berry, goes by the alias Shiver Metimbers. As of 2013, the 419 Eater forum had over 55,000 ...