How Nigerians Threatened Australian Teenager To Death Over ‘Sextortion’ – Police
Two Nigerian men who allegedly tried to extort an Australian teenager by threatening to release compromising photos of him online have been arrested, Australian police said Monday.
According to the detectives, the boy killed himself after being threatened by the suspects in the alleged “sextortion” scam.
The men, who had been talking with the teenager online, said they would release “personal photos of the boy” if he did not pay them Aus$500 (US$330), Australian police said.
The police said with the help of the authorities in South Africa and Nigeria, they tracked the two men to “a slum in Nigeria”.
Under Nigerian law, local authorities “have the power to prosecute for Australian-based offences”, they added.
“The sextortion of children is a borderless crime, as these arrests show,” said Australian Federal Police commander Helen Schneider.
