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Walker Montgomery
It’s only a white boy that’s going to kill himself because someone is threatening to share a video of him jacking off. A black would be like “bitch, my dick? Why I be care bout dat?”
You should never do anything on the internet you wouldn’t feel comfortable with the whole world knowing about. Even if it’s a real girl telling you to jack off in front of her, it’s going to lead to a negative outcome.
What a humiliating way to die.
At midnight on December 1, 2022, Walker Montgomery received a direct message from a pretty girl on Instagram.
The 16-year-old didn’t know her, but they seemed to have mutual friends, and he was flattered as she asked him about school and football.
Soon enough, things turned from flirtatious to sexual. The girl video-chatted Walker on Instagram and soon exposed herself.
He did the same — and stepped right into a trap.
There was no girl at all. The video had been lifted from a porn site.
The person on the other side of the chat was a Nigerian scam artist who recorded the entire encounter.
As soon as Walker’s image was captured, the scammer threatened to send the video to all of the boy’s Instagram’s contacts unless he forked over $1,000.
For two hours the Starksville, Mississippi teen, who did not have access to a bank account, pleaded for mercy as the extortionist claimed to send the photos to his list of followers one by one.
“We’re gonna destroy your life if you don’t give us the money,” the scammer told him. “Everybody’s gonna disown you. Your life is over.”
When the list got to his mother’s username, it was too much for the teen to stand. He said he was going to kill himself.
“Go ahead, because your life is already over,” the scammer responded.
Walker retrieved a handgun from his father’s safe, and, at just 16, he took his own life.
His harassers never sent out the video, even though they claimed they had.
The teen had fallen prey to sextortion — a scheme in which scammers lure victims into sharing explicit photos, then threaten to send the pictures to everyone they know unless they pay up.
Perpetrators — many of whom are from Nigeria and the Ivory Coast, according to the Department of Justice — often contact targets through direct messages on platforms like Instagram, Snapchat and WhatsApp. The FBI says that 13- to 17-year-old boys are the most common targets.
For six weeks, Walker’s parents, Brian and Courtney Montgomery were at a complete loss as to why their child took his own life.
Walker had a large group of friends, a close knit family and attended church regularly. He loved hunting, fishing and football.
“When this happened, none of it made sense,” Brian, a crop insurance agent, told The Post. “There were no signs of depression. No mental illness. No red flags.”
But an FBI forensics analysis of Walker’s phone uncovered the scam. The whole ordeal — from the first message to Walker’s death — lasted only four hours.
“We never got to see him. We never got to help him,” the heartbroken father, 47, said. “We never got to even observe him under the stress to be able to try to help him. There was no opportunity.”
Now, Brian just wishes he had known this threat even existed — so he’s telling Walker’s story to make sure other parents do.
In fact, the night before the Montgomerys spoke to The Post, Brian was contacted by a parent whose child had been targeted and he was able to help talk down the hysterical 15-year-old.
It’s a vital job, as sextortion is becoming more and more common, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which operates a Cyber Tip Line where victims can report sextortionists.
The organization says that the number of reported sextortion scams doubled between 2019 and 2021, and that more than a quarter of a million cases of online enticement have been flagged since 2016.
“Criminal enterprises are starting to turn their sights onto young kids,” Cal Walsh, a child advocate at the Center, told The Post. “They realized that many children in the United States have access to their parents’ finances and credit card information.”
He cited a major “knowledge gap” when it comes to these often hyper-organized scams: “Parents need to be talking to their children about making safe and smart decisions, but also letting them know that they can come to them and that it’s not their fault when someone solicits them online.”
Walsh said he’s aware of more than a dozen boys who took their own life as a result of these shakedowns last year.
Pauline Stuart is the mother of one of them.
“I never even knew sextortion existed until it happened to us,” she told The Post.
Stuart, a San Jose educator who teaches autistic grade schoolers, said it’s important parents realize that kids with no prior mental health concerns can take their own lives as a result of sextortion.
Her 17-year-old son, Ryan Last, was mere days away from turning 18 and a senior in high school when he was contacted by Ivory Coast scammers who talked him into sending a compromising photo over Google Chat last March.
Ryan Last
He desperately wired them $150 of the $5,000 they demanded. It was all the cash the teen could muster up to stop the photo from being sent to his entire Instagram friend list.
Within eight hours of the first fateful message, he took his own life.
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Since losing her son, Stuart has seen some justice. Late last year, authorities arrested Jonathan Kassi, a 25-year-old living in Los Angeles, for serving as a money mule for the Ivory Coast scammers.
Kassi’s co-conspirators are yet to be charged, but there is hope.
Jonathan Kassi
Earlier this month, two prolific Nigerian sextortionists — brothers Samuel and Samson Ogoshi, 22 and 20, respectively — were extradited to the United States on federal charges of sexual exploitation, conspiracy to exploit minors, child pornography distribution and internet stalking.
Samson Ogoshi
Samuel Ogoshi
One of their victims, 17-year-old Jordan DeMay of Michigan, took his own life after the siblings extorted him last March. The Department of Justice has shared the chilling messages the brothers sent DeMay.
“I have screenshot all ur followers and tags can send this nudes to everyone and also send your nudes to your Family and friends Until it goes viral,” they wrote under the screen name dani.robertts. “All you’ve to do is to cooperate with me and I won’t expose you.”
After the teen told them he was going to kill himself, they responded, “Good. Do that fast. Or I’ll make you do it. I swear to God.” Jordan followed through.
Samuel faces a minimum sentence of 30 years and Samson five years if convicted.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children advises that anyone approached by a sextortionist should block the individual, save the messages and immediately report the incident to the authorities.
Many victims fail to block their sextortionists out of fear that will cause the photos to be released. But privacy expert and blackmail consultant Frank Ahearn said that fear is often unfounded.
Frank Ahearn
“Blackmail is a transactional thing about money. It’s not a thing about destroying a life,” Ahearn, who has made a career out of helping sextortion victims get out unscathed, told The Post.
“It’s about getting paid: threaten, threaten, get paid, threaten, threaten, get paid. There’s no money in threaten, threaten, expose. So in most cases they don’t.”
Such was the case with 16-year-old Waylon Scheffer. He took his own life in December out of fear that his explicit photos had gotten out into the world.
Waylon Scheffer
They hadn’t. In fact, his family didn’t even know the teen was a victim of sextortion until investigators uncovered messages in Waylon’s phone weeks after his untimely death.
Jason Scheffer thought he had taught his son about the dangers of the internet. But one warning he passed on would prove to be hauntingly prophetic.
“If it’s some hot chick sitting on a beach somewhere, it’s not some hot chick sitting on a beach somewhere,” Scheffer warned his teen on multiple occasions. “It’s a dude from Africa.”
Many such cases.
SEXTORTION SCAM.
The story of two Nigerian brothers (22 & 20 years) who were extradited to the United States for running a blackmail (Sextortion Scam) on a 17year old American who committed suicide due to the blackmail. pic.twitter.com/5LH1YOh5Z6
— Lawrence I. Okoro ( Sir Law ) (@LawrenceOkoroPG) August 25, 2023
