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BarBar said:
This is horrible. And I think it's not just teens that are victims.

I am pretty sure my father was into something like this before he died.

Long story short....he died in 2022 suddenly. Trying to notify all his friends and acquaintances I logged onto his computer/e-mail. Shocked is an understatement. It was so icky I looked through the first page for anything legitimately looking like a friend or contact then turned it off.

He had owned his home clean and clear. I found out that he had taken out a mortgage loan for the full value of the home just 2 years prior. Money is nowhere to be found. Still haven't found it. I am pretty sure he was scammed, blackmailed, or extorted for 100k or so probably to do with sex stuff. The bank repossessed the home. It was really a horrible few weeks dealing with all that crap.
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I know a lot of these scammers are specifically targeting older (and ideally wealthier) lonely widows and pulling off elaborate romance scams

They'll play the long game, playing the part for months or longer before they ask for $50K
 
My 21 year old son said to me one day, "You know dad. You guys had it better than us. The internet has ruined us."

He's not wrong. The internet is a Trojan Horse presented to us as a means of "connecting with the world". The problem is that we did connect with the world and we see just how greedy, sick and evil we are as a people and human race.

It may have always been there but no doubt the internet/social media has opened the door for us all to walk through and see. Pandora's Box has been opened.......

EDIT - And the irony is not lost on me that I am typing this on an internet board.
 
Jesus

Not even for money. Just for giggles

There is no punishment severe enough for these people

It sounds like this "Brad" easily could have been a school shooter in a slightly different scenario, but he found this outlet to hurt people instead
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The person in the online chat introduced himself as “Brad.” Using flattery and guile, he persuaded the 14-year-old girl to send a nude photo. It instantly became leverage.

Over the following two weeks in April 2021, he and other online predators threatened to send the image to the girl’s classmates in Oklahoma unless she live-streamed degrading and violent acts, the girl’s mother told The Washington Post.

They coerced her into carving their screen names deep into her thigh, drinking from a toilet bowl and beheading a pet hamster — all as they watched in a video chatroom on the social media platform Discord.

The pressure escalated until she faced one final demand: to kill herself on camera.

“You just don’t realize how quickly it can happen,” said the mother, who intervened before her daughter could act on the final demand. The mother agreed to talk about the experience to warn other parents but did so on the condition of anonymity out of concern for her daughter’s safety.

The abusers were part of an emerging international network of online groups that have targeted thousands of children with a sadistic form of social media terror that authorities and technology companies have struggled to control, according to an examination by The Washington Post, Wired Magazine, Der Spiegel in Germany and Recorder in Romania.

The perpetrators — identified by authorities as boys and men as old as mid-40s — seek out children with mental health issues and blackmail them into hurting themselves on camera, the examination found. They belong to a set of evolving online groups, some of which have thousands of members, that often splinter and take on new names but have overlapping membership and use the same tactics.

Unlike many “sextortion” schemes that seek money or increasingly graphic images, these perpetrators are chasing notoriety in a community that glorifies cruelty, victims and law enforcement officials say. The FBI issued a public warning in September identifying eight such groups that target minors between the ages of 8 and 17, seeking to harm them for the members’ “own entertainment or their own sense of fame.”..............

The Oklahoma teenager’s experience with 764 started innocuously, her mother said in an interview. The girl downloaded the Discord app on her phone because her middle school art teacher encouraged students to use it to share their work. A fan of horror stories, she soon began searching for gory content.

She landed in a chatroom where she met “Brad,” who flattered her and invited her to the 764 server. The 14-year-old was typical of children victimized by these groups: She had a history of mental illness, having been hospitalized for depression the previous November, her mother said.

“He pretended to like her as a girlfriend,” the mother said. “She sent him videos or pictures. And then the manipulation and control started. ”

For more than two weeks, the girl complied with the demands of a handful of abusers in the 764 server, live-streaming some videos from inside her bedroom closet while her mother was in the house, according to her mother. They told the girl that if she didn’t comply they would send explicit photos of her to her social media followers, classmates and school principal. They threatened to hurt her younger brother.

The Post reviewed a video of the girl that was still circulating on Telegram late last year, a recording of a live stream on the 764 Discord server. The girl holds the family’s hamster in one hand and a razor blade in the other as three males berate her. “Bite the head off, or I’ll f--- up your life,” a male with the screen name “Felix” yells, as she sobs. “Stop crying,” says another male.

The girl’s mother said in an interview that “Brad” coerced her daughter into killing the hamster. The victim from Canada said she was in the Discord server at the time and confirmed that the 764 leader pressured the girl into mutilating the animal as dozens of people watched online.

The girl’s mother found out about the extortion later that same night in April 2021.

She heard the muffled sound of her daughter’s voice through the bathroom door, talking to someone as she bathed. She waited by the door until her daughter opened it. On her daughter’s torso were self-inflicted cuts the abusers had told her to make while she was in the bathtub, the mother said.

The girl told her mother that a cult was extorting her and that she had been instructed to take her own life the following day.

“I believe she was going to kill herself,” the mother said. “If I had not been at that bathroom door, I have no doubt I would have lost my daughter.”

The mother struggled to understand the depravity...............

 
If a parent got their hands on one of these people and did something terrible to them and I was on the jury, the parent gets a 'not guilty' from me all day long

I hate that some people are depraved and evil enough to even think of this much less do it

And to me this is worse than the people doing it for blackmail. People are greedy and some will do anything and everything and screw over anyone for an easy buck. And won't feel the least bit bad or sorry about it

I hate it, but I 'get' it

But the people who do this just for 'fun'? For FUN???!!!

Fork those people
 
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Optimus Prime said:
Jesus

Not even for money. Just for giggles

There is no punishment severe enough for these people

It sounds like this "Brad" easily could have been a school shooter in a slightly different scenario, but he found this outlet to hurt people instead
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The person in the online chat introduced himself as “Brad.” Using flattery and guile, he persuaded the 14-year-old girl to send a nude photo. It instantly became leverage.

Over the following two weeks in April 2021, he and other online predators threatened to send the image to the girl’s classmates in Oklahoma unless she live-streamed degrading and violent acts, the girl’s mother told The Washington Post.

They coerced her into carving their screen names deep into her thigh, drinking from a toilet bowl and beheading a pet hamster — all as they watched in a video chatroom on the social media platform Discord.

The pressure escalated until she faced one final demand: to kill herself on camera.

“You just don’t realize how quickly it can happen,” said the mother, who intervened before her daughter could act on the final demand. The mother agreed to talk about the experience to warn other parents but did so on the condition of anonymity out of concern for her daughter’s safety.

The abusers were part of an emerging international network of online groups that have targeted thousands of children with a sadistic form of social media terror that authorities and technology companies have struggled to control, according to an examination by The Washington Post, Wired Magazine, Der Spiegel in Germany and Recorder in Romania.

The perpetrators — identified by authorities as boys and men as old as mid-40s — seek out children with mental health issues and blackmail them into hurting themselves on camera, the examination found. They belong to a set of evolving online groups, some of which have thousands of members, that often splinter and take on new names but have overlapping membership and use the same tactics.

Unlike many “sextortion” schemes that seek money or increasingly graphic images, these perpetrators are chasing notoriety in a community that glorifies cruelty, victims and law enforcement officials say. The FBI issued a public warning in September identifying eight such groups that target minors between the ages of 8 and 17, seeking to harm them for the members’ “own entertainment or their own sense of fame.”..............

The Oklahoma teenager’s experience with 764 started innocuously, her mother said in an interview. The girl downloaded the Discord app on her phone because her middle school art teacher encouraged students to use it to share their work. A fan of horror stories, she soon began searching for gory content.

She landed in a chatroom where she met “Brad,” who flattered her and invited her to the 764 server. The 14-year-old was typical of children victimized by these groups: She had a history of mental illness, having been hospitalized for depression the previous November, her mother said.

“He pretended to like her as a girlfriend,” the mother said. “She sent him videos or pictures. And then the manipulation and control started. ”

For more than two weeks, the girl complied with the demands of a handful of abusers in the 764 server, live-streaming some videos from inside her bedroom closet while her mother was in the house, according to her mother. They told the girl that if she didn’t comply they would send explicit photos of her to her social media followers, classmates and school principal. They threatened to hurt her younger brother.

The Post reviewed a video of the girl that was still circulating on Telegram late last year, a recording of a live stream on the 764 Discord server. The girl holds the family’s hamster in one hand and a razor blade in the other as three males berate her. “Bite the head off, or I’ll f--- up your life,” a male with the screen name “Felix” yells, as she sobs. “Stop crying,” says another male.

The girl’s mother said in an interview that “Brad” coerced her daughter into killing the hamster. The victim from Canada said she was in the Discord server at the time and confirmed that the 764 leader pressured the girl into mutilating the animal as dozens of people watched online.

The girl’s mother found out about the extortion later that same night in April 2021.

She heard the muffled sound of her daughter’s voice through the bathroom door, talking to someone as she bathed. She waited by the door until her daughter opened it. On her daughter’s torso were self-inflicted cuts the abusers had told her to make while she was in the bathtub, the mother said.

The girl told her mother that a cult was extorting her and that she had been instructed to take her own life the following day.

“I believe she was going to kill herself,” the mother said. “If I had not been at that bathroom door, I have no doubt I would have lost my daughter.”

The mother struggled to understand the depravity...............

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Earlier this year The Fifth Estate did and episode on this same thing
 
Optimus Prime said:
Jesus

Not even for money. Just for giggles

There is no punishment severe enough for these people

It sounds like this "Brad" easily could have been a school shooter in a slightly different scenario, but he found this outlet to hurt people instead
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The person in the online chat introduced himself as “Brad.” Using flattery and guile, he persuaded the 14-year-old girl to send a nude photo. It instantly became leverage.

Over the following two weeks in April 2021, he and other online predators threatened to send the image to the girl’s classmates in Oklahoma unless she live-streamed degrading and violent acts, the girl’s mother told The Washington Post.

They coerced her into carving their screen names deep into her thigh, drinking from a toilet bowl and beheading a pet hamster — all as they watched in a video chatroom on the social media platform Discord.

The pressure escalated until she faced one final demand: to kill herself on camera.

“You just don’t realize how quickly it can happen,” said the mother, who intervened before her daughter could act on the final demand. The mother agreed to talk about the experience to warn other parents but did so on the condition of anonymity out of concern for her daughter’s safety.

The abusers were part of an emerging international network of online groups that have targeted thousands of children with a sadistic form of social media terror that authorities and technology companies have struggled to control, according to an examination by The Washington Post, Wired Magazine, Der Spiegel in Germany and Recorder in Romania.

The perpetrators — identified by authorities as boys and men as old as mid-40s — seek out children with mental health issues and blackmail them into hurting themselves on camera, the examination found. They belong to a set of evolving online groups, some of which have thousands of members, that often splinter and take on new names but have overlapping membership and use the same tactics.

Unlike many “sextortion” schemes that seek money or increasingly graphic images, these perpetrators are chasing notoriety in a community that glorifies cruelty, victims and law enforcement officials say. The FBI issued a public warning in September identifying eight such groups that target minors between the ages of 8 and 17, seeking to harm them for the members’ “own entertainment or their own sense of fame.”..............

The Oklahoma teenager’s experience with 764 started innocuously, her mother said in an interview. The girl downloaded the Discord app on her phone because her middle school art teacher encouraged students to use it to share their work. A fan of horror stories, she soon began searching for gory content.

She landed in a chatroom where she met “Brad,” who flattered her and invited her to the 764 server. The 14-year-old was typical of children victimized by these groups: She had a history of mental illness, having been hospitalized for depression the previous November, her mother said.

“He pretended to like her as a girlfriend,” the mother said. “She sent him videos or pictures. And then the manipulation and control started. ”

For more than two weeks, the girl complied with the demands of a handful of abusers in the 764 server, live-streaming some videos from inside her bedroom closet while her mother was in the house, according to her mother. They told the girl that if she didn’t comply they would send explicit photos of her to her social media followers, classmates and school principal. They threatened to hurt her younger brother.

The Post reviewed a video of the girl that was still circulating on Telegram late last year, a recording of a live stream on the 764 Discord server. The girl holds the family’s hamster in one hand and a razor blade in the other as three males berate her. “Bite the head off, or I’ll f--- up your life,” a male with the screen name “Felix” yells, as she sobs. “Stop crying,” says another male.

The girl’s mother said in an interview that “Brad” coerced her daughter into killing the hamster. The victim from Canada said she was in the Discord server at the time and confirmed that the 764 leader pressured the girl into mutilating the animal as dozens of people watched online.

The girl’s mother found out about the extortion later that same night in April 2021.

She heard the muffled sound of her daughter’s voice through the bathroom door, talking to someone as she bathed. She waited by the door until her daughter opened it. On her daughter’s torso were self-inflicted cuts the abusers had told her to make while she was in the bathtub, the mother said.

The girl told her mother that a cult was extorting her and that she had been instructed to take her own life the following day.

“I believe she was going to kill herself,” the mother said. “If I had not been at that bathroom door, I have no doubt I would have lost my daughter.”

The mother struggled to understand the depravity...............

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5 minutes alone with just one of those "men". That's all I ask.......
 
It was a relaxed evening at home in Dunblane, near Stirling, a few days before the turn of the year. The Dowey family – Ros, Mark and their three sons – were watching television when talk turned to plans for the new year.

Murray, 16 years old and their middle boy, chatted about saving up for a holiday to Marbella he was planning with his friends that summer. At about half past nine, he went up to his bedroom. It was the last time his family saw him alive.

The next morning, Ros was preparing for a visit to friends in Glasgow. “I saw that Murray’s door was ajar with the light on,” she says. “I walked in and said ‘Are you up?’ and found him there.”

Mark was downstairs watching the football when he heard “this crazy, crazy screaming”. He shudders at the recollection. In the couple of hours since he had gone to bed, Muzz – as his family knew him – had taken his own life.


It took the police two weeks to gain access to Murray’s phone, and discover the truth – two weeks of “questioning every interaction”, says Ros, “trying to understand what we’d missed, how that happy boy who’d gone to bed that night was dead”.

Neither Murray himself, nor anyone close to him, had ever expressed any concerns about his mental health.

Police Scotland told the Doweys there was evidence that, on the night he died, Murray was targeted by criminals involved in financially motivated sexual extortion – commonly known as “sextortion”.

It is a crime that agencies across the UK, US and Australia confirm is rising sharply with teenage boys and young adult males typically the victims of loosely organised cyber-criminal gangs often based in west Africa or south-east Asia. The extortion formula is simple, with scripts and detailed “how-to” guides shared online, and often brutally effective.

“He was duped into thinking he was talking to a young girl,” Ros explains, “and she had an intimate picture with her. As soon as shared his own, it became very clear it wasn’t a young girl he was speaking to, it was criminals who immediately started to extort him, asking for card details and threatening to share his picture with all his contacts.”

The effect on Murray would have been catastrophic, says his mother. “He was very private and hated being the centre of attention.” She describes the “frenzied panic” he must have felt: “That’s why they target teenagers, because they don’t have the life experience to understand it will pass.”


Murray was clever and street-smart, says his dad, not glued to his phone, and, if anything, slightly dismissive of social media.

An open family, they had discussed the dangers of sharing photos and messaging strangers “and yet he still fell for it. It can happen to any child.”…….

www.theguardian.com

‘It can happen to any child’: parents of sextortion victim send out warning

Ros and Mark Dowey, whose son Murray took his life after being duped by criminals online, are calling for greater awareness and social media regulation
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
Last October, 14-year-old Elliston Berry woke up to a nightmare.

The teen’s phone was flooded with calls and texts telling her that someone had shared fake nude images of her on Snapchat and other social media platforms.

“I was told it went around the whole school,” Berry, from Texas, told Fox News. “And it was just so scary going through classes and attending school, because just the fear of everyone seeing these images, it created so much anxiety.”

The photos were AI-generated - what’s known as deepfakes. These generated images and videos have become frighteningly prevalent in recent years. Deepfakes are made to look hyper-realistic and are often used to impersonate major public figures or create fake pornography. But they can also cause significant harm to regular people.

Berry, now 15, is calling on lawmakers to write criminal penalties into law for perpetrators to protect future victims of deepfake images.

The teen told the outlet that after discovering what had happened, she immediately went to her parents. Her mother, Anna McAdams, told Fox News she knew the images were fake. McAdams then reached out to Snapchat several times over an eight-month period to have the photos removed.

While the deepfakes of Berry were eventually taken down, McAdams told CNN, the classmate who distributed them is facing few repercussions…….



www.independent.co.uk

Girl, 15, speaks out after classmate made deepfake nudes of her and posted online

Teenager Elliston Berry is calling on lawmakers to require that tech companies remove AI-generated pornography within two days of a report
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
 
A long-standing scam that sends terrifying messages to people, beginning with the words “hey pervert”, appears to be continuing.

The emails claim that someone has been watching you through your computer’s camera, and threaten to send footage taken through that camera to family and friends.

The emails often begin with a variation on the eye-catching opening: “hello pervert”.

They usually include accusations that the recipient has been watching pornographic content and that those videos could be sent to families and friends too.

But the messages and any claims they make are a scam. While it has been a popular way of attacking people for years, it seems to have picked up in recent weeks and months.

If people are tricked into believing the message, they are encouraged to send money to someone as a ransom to stop the supposedly incriminating footage being released.

But even replying to those messages is best avoided. Sending any kind of response can confirm that an email address is in use – potentially inviting more scam emails in the future.

The messages are doubly threatening because they look as if the hacker has access to your inbox. The emails come with your own name in the “from” section of the message – but that is because email software allows users to put fake information into that field.

Other messages might include more personal information, such as a username or even password. But those are taken from publicly available data from cyber attacks – which can then be scooped up by cyber criminals and used for further scams.……

www.independent.co.uk

‘Hello pervert’: The terrifying email that might be in your inbox

Message claims that someone has been watching you through your webcam – and threatens to release the footage
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
 
The National Crime Agency has warned international cybercriminals that it could seek to extradite them as part of a crackdown to tackle an alarming rise in the numbers of young people being targeted for sextortion.

The agency said the gangs, often based in west Africa, were “not safe from prosecution in our country” and that it would seek justice for all victims of the crime.

In cases of sextortion, teenagers are tricked online into sending intimate pictures of themselves to fraudsters who then demand money and threaten to share the material with others.


The Guardian has learned that detailed guides to sextortion in written and video formats are available freely online, with criminals offering individual tuition for further payment.

The NCA said it would introduce a new recording measure to assess the extent of a crime described by the child safety watchdog the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) as “the biggest trend we’ve seen and one of the cruellest”.

Sextortion has been implicated in the deaths of at least two UK teenagers in recent years. Dinal De Alwis, 16, from south London, described by his parents as a “golden boy”, took his own life after being blackmailed over nude photographs.

Murray Dowey, 16, from Dunblane, died soon after he was targeted by online blackmailers. His parents told the Guardian how their family had been “absolutely shattered in the space of a few hours”.

Organisations supporting victims are calling on the Labour government and crime agencies to make sextortion a priority to prevent “more lives being devastated”.……

www.theguardian.com

National Crime Agency threatens extraditions over rise in sextortion cases

Exclusive: Agency says foreign gangs not safe from prosecution in UK and plans new recording label to track extent of the crime
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
It was a phone call that has become all too common for Childline counsellors in recent months.

The 17-year-old boy said he was scared and did not know what to do. He had been contacted by a “girl” on social media claiming to be his own age and, after an exchange of messages, had sent her an intimate image. And then the blackmail demands started.

This is financial sextortion, a distressing trend in internet fraud that is targeting British teenagers.


Rebekah Hipkiss, the Childline supervisor who took the call, says the frequency of these contacts with financial sextortion victims is daily and has increased “enormously” over the past 12 months. In the past year, Childline has encountered more than 100 cases of financial sextortion, the first data it has gathered since assigning a specific code to such incidents.

Hipkiss says the teenagers who contact Childline are embarrassed about being tricked and concerned that friends and family, who might be listed on the teenager’s social media profile, will be sent the images they are being blackmailed over.

“What we’re concerned with is the emotional impact it has had on them,” says Hipkiss, who works at Childline’s London base. “They feel extremely foolish, they feel very embarrassed. They are concerned that family and friends will find out.” She adds: “Sometimes they’ve paid money, sometimes they haven’t.”…….

www.theguardian.com

‘It looks so real’: amid rise in financial sextortion, Childline is helping teenagers fight back

Counsellors are receiving an increasing number of calls from young people being blackmailed over faked indecent images
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
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MARQUETTE, Mich. (AP) — Two brothers from Nigeria were sentenced to 17 1/2 years in federal prison Thursday after pleading guilty to sexually extorting teenage boys and young men across the U.S., including a 17-year-old from Michigan who took his own life.

A federal judge sentenced Samuel Ogoshi, 24, and Samson Ogoshi, 21, after hearing emotional testimony from the parents and stepmother of Jordan DeMay, who was 17 when he killed himself at his family’s home in Marquette, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.

The Ogoshis, both from Lagos, Nigeria, had previously been extradited from Nigeria to stand trial. The brothers each pleaded guilty in April to conspiring to sexually exploit teenage boys.

They were accused of running an international sextortion ring in which they posed as a woman, a scheme which resulted in DeMay’s March 2022 suicide.

The siblings were accused of inducing DeMay to send a naked picture of himself and then extorting him. Federal prosecutors said their sextortion schemes targeted more than 100 victims, including DeMay…….

apnews.com

2 Nigerian brothers sentenced for sextortion that led to teen's death

Two brothers from Nigeria have been sentenced to 17 1/2 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to sexually extorting teenage boys and young men across the U.S.
apnews.com apnews.com
 
I don't know why I'm still surprised to see some people just have no souls

These platforms absolutely should bear some responsibility in these cases

If they start getting hit with multi million dollar judgments maybe they'll actually do something to help stop these from happening
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Samuel Hervey, a 25-year-old in the throes of a severe mental health crisis, positioned his phone so its camera would capture the gruesome spectacle that was about to unfold.

The Minnesota native stepped into the frame of the video live stream, his long hair spilling from the hood of a white sweatshirt. He sat down cross-legged and emptied a plastic bottle filled with gasoline onto his head and his clothing. Then he lit a flame.

As fire engulfed him, more than two dozen people watched in a private video chatroom on the popular messaging app Discord. They laughed, cheered and congratulated themselves, according to a recording reviewed by The Washington Post.

Among those watching the November 2021 live stream was a 15-year-old girl in an Eastern European city who had spent much of the previous week in close contact with Hervey, urging him in private messages and voice calls to take his life on camera, The Post found. It was an effort, she later said in an interview, to impress others in a global online community that rewards cruelty.

“I was getting my big break,” she recalled thinking during Hervey’s suicide. “It was a competition of who could do the worst thing. So I obviously felt very cool.”
The circumstances leading to Hervey’s self-immolation remained mostly a mystery to his family and friends and to law enforcement. The Post traced the suicide to the online community known as “764” and found that it was enabled by a messaging app the group has used to find victims halfway across the globe and lure them into closed, largely unmoderated spaces.

Hervey’s path into a virtual den of predation — and the role of a teenager who believed coaxing a stranger to kill himself on camera would boost her social status — offers a disturbing case study of what federal prosecutors warn is an emerging threat posed by sadistic groups that target vulnerable people online. And it illustrates the deadly consequences when social media platforms fail to contain that threat.

The Post located the girl, who operated under the screen name “Fmlk,” through an extensive analysis of her digital footprint. Now 18, she spoke on the condition that she be identified only by her Discord screen name, age and region.

The Post is not naming her because she was a minor at the time. She said she agreed to talk because she regrets her actions, which she said also included encouraging a teenage girl to kill herself on a live stream in March 2022. Fmlk said she has since left the online group.

“I feel very bad for what I did, even now,” she said during one of several in-person interviews in her home city. “It’s something that happened when I was in a bad space. … I feel like this thing is going to haunt me for the rest of my life.”

The FBI has said 764 — named for the first three numbers of the Zip code of the town in Texas where its founder lived — and its offshoots have targeted thousands of children in recent years, often persuading them to share nude photos and then extorting them into harming animals or themselves.

In a warning late last year, the agency said the groups try to get their victims, many of whom have mental health issues, to kill themselves on camera “for their own entertainment or their own sense of fame.” The FBI has said the group meets the definition of a domestic terror organization.

Although Discord prohibits promoting self-harm on its platform, Hervey and others communicated about his suicide plans for more than a week in a chatroom that was created specifically to broadcast his death, The Post found.................

He was suicidal and needed help. A 15-year-old girl pushed him to kill himself on a live stream​

 
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Optimus Prime said:
“I was getting my big break,” she recalled thinking during Hervey’s suicide. “It was a competition of who could do the worst thing. So I obviously felt very cool.”
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Well, obviously.

Optimus Prime said:
“I feel very bad for what I did, even now,” she said during one of several in-person interviews in her home city. “It’s something that happened when I was in a bad space. … I feel like this thing is going to haunt me for the rest of my life.”
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Even now? Really? No, that's something you totally shouldn't let haunt you for the rest of your life.
 

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