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. >> two nigerian men are headed to prison for running an international sextortion ring that preyed on the most vulnerable among us. their scam led a michigan teenager to take his own life, leaving his mother, quote, shattered to the core. this morning, a pair of nigerian scammers are behind bars here in the u.s, convicted in an internet con that turned deadly. >> they solicited and received a compromising image, and then they immediately turned to blackmail their victims, hounding them for money and even urging their victims to kill themselves if they couldn't pay. >> samuel and samson ogoshi were found guilty of conspiracy to sexually exploit a minor after they extorted michigan teenager jordan demay. the 17 year old homecoming king later took his own life, thrusting so-called sextortion into the national spotlight. >> it started out with the supposed girl saying, hey, we have some friends in common. >> the two men targeted dumais by pretending to be a high school girl named danae, eventually convincing dumais to send explicit photos of himself. the scammers then demanded $1,000, thr

and a warning to parents after a teen falls victim to a growing scam known as sextortion. >> we'll tellate tuesday night live on ab. >> a truck driver has been charged with reckless driving in virginia after this, slamming his big rig into this highway. sign the bed separated from the cab there and as you can see, landed upright. the driver luckily was not injured. >> now to michigan and a warning to parents after a 17 year old fell victim to a growing scam known as sextortion. those responsible are now facing justice. this morning, a pair of nigerian scammers are behind bars here in the u.s. convicted in an internet con that turned deadly. they solicited and received a compromising image, and then they immediately turned to blackmail their victims, hounding them for money and even urging their victims to kill themselves if they couldn't pay. samuel and samson ogoshi were found guilty of conspiracy to sexually exploit a minor after they extorted michigan teenager jordan demay. the 17 year old homecoming king later took his own life, thrusting so-called sextortion into the national spotl

and last year alone saw almost 8,000 blackmail cases which referenced sextortion, compared to just 23programme that the way sextortion offences are reported needs to change, and victims should be better supported. a warning, jayne mccubbin�*s report begins with one victim discussing suicidal thoughts. i stood on the platform and ijust said to myself, it's not worth living any more. and i saw the train coming and i... i wanted to step off the platform. you felt there was no hope? i didn't think anyone would want to help me. we're calling him john. he has a learning disability. and when a woman who said she was a teacher reached out on social media, he was flattered and started a conversation. but then came the requests for a photograph. they were pretending to be kind and supportive, and then they started to get flirty, sharing pictures of themselves, and all of a sudden you're pressured to do something and you do it without thinking. and that's all they needed then to blackmail you. the messages were threatening and unrelenting, as many as 50 a day. he lost more than £3,000. i thought

i mean, you see in the news stories of teens who have experienced sextortion and end up committing suicideause of that pressure and, you know, not wanting to reach out for help while supporting other teens. >> he too, was struggling with his own pressures from social media, watching others post their college acceptances online while he faced rejection. >> when you set these high expectations for yourself and you're seeing other people's acceptances on social media. i think when you don't end up getting in these schools that you work so hard for, that can be really heartbreaking. >> i look at jonathan and i think like he has everything that a college would want. >> there's just an overabundance of kids like that, right? >> you know, we see these kids who are like, i've got ten apps, i've got perfect sats, i've got these extracurriculars, and they're actually listing their stats on online and in episode three, i call it algorithm pressure. and it's like the new peer pressure. >> keyshawn domingo feels that pressure to yeah, yeah, money comes with a goal. >> i've always wanted. i wanted to br

technology, bad actors see new opportunities for more sophisticated crimes, from deepfake scams to sextortion christopher wray issuing a stark warning all americans should try to be more discerning consumers of information. >> it is incumbent on everyone in america to bring an intensified sense of focus and caution to the use of ai, and how ai can be used by bad guys against all of us. but not to panic, i don't think this is a time for panic. >> what was your biggest question going into these conversations? >> what is the possibility and what's the peril? and so what i'm thinking is we need to get ahead and not wait until so many lives are impacted negatively. and i think because it's here and here to stay, we need to develop a new sense of muscle for discerning what is real and what is not. >> there are a lot of people watching right now who are probably scared and have never actually used it in a knowing way. >> i don't think we should be scared. i think we should be disciplined and have a reverence for what is to come, because i think it's going to change in ways that are unimaginable for

bbc has found there's been more than 21,000 blackmail offences in england and wales relating to sextortionort — as our reporter jayne mccubbin has been hearing. i stood on the platform and ijust said to myself, it's not worth living any more. and i saw the train coming and i... i wanted to step off the platform. you felt there was no hope? i didn't think anyone would want to help me. we're calling him john. he has a learning disability. and when a woman who said she was a teacher reached out on social media, he was flattered and started a conversation. but then came the requests for a photograph. they were pretending to be kind and supportive, and then they started to get flirty, sharing pictures of themselves, and all of a sudden you're pressured to do something and you do it without thinking. and that's all they needed then to blackmail you. the messages were threatening and unrelenting, as many as 50 a day. he lost more than £3,000. i thought my life was over. i thought they were going to ruin me. they used those words, didn't they? they did. that's whenjohn went to the train station. a

trafficking to the production and distribution of child sexual abuse materials online, harassment, and sextortionimes hide within our society. >> bret: that's democrats and republicans, tony, it's real time and it's happening now. the movie is current. >> yeah. i think so, too. i just hope people will get a chance to see it, let themself be moved. show it to their family and friends he. see it now. it's available on amazon and apple so you don't have to go to the movie theater to see it. it's an important film to see. my wife and i have personally been involved in this trafficking issue for almost 8 years. and with myself and some of our friends, we have saved over 71,000 children. and many of these kids by the way become social workers to go help other kids get out of this situation. can you imagine the trauma they have been through. turning this around is such an important issue and i appreciate, bret, you having us on. >> bret: tony, mo, we appreciate the time. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> bret: john, we will send it back to you. >> john: all right, bret. a very importan

he also says that sextortion is so common and simple for predators to carry out on snapchat that criminalshey can use to victimize minors, and snapchat has not taken steps to block those scripts. he's also saying here that there's been an undercover operation by the new mexico department of justice to set up dummy accounts on snapchat, and they've attracted a whole lot of really gross attention from predators on that service. we'll reach out to snapchat and get their response to this lawsuit, which was filed this morning, carl. back over to you. >> eamon, thanks for that. one more chapter in moderation of social media content, jim. >> yeah, look, i mean, these lawsuits, there's really only one thing, if you're on the other side of that, i think whatever you do is you get to the regulators, tell us what to do. i always felt that meta took that position. meta really never did the sexual predators that i know of, but this is obviously incredibly serious to the not necessarily to the stock, because it's just been pummelled left and right, but to the zeitgeist of it, which is that, you know wha

in fact, the fbi just issued a warning this year about the growing threat of sextortion for minors onlinethere are dozens of families across the country whose children have taken their own lives because of their fear of these images being released. there are hundreds of high schoolers targeted, often by their own classmates, who are experiencing incredible psychological harms knowing that these images exist and are still out there. and your child's images aren't just targeted while they're in middle school or high school. in new york, a young man right out of high school took images of his former classmates from their social media profiles and used a.i. to alter the images in a sexually explicit manner. he then posted them for the world to see, along with their personally identifiable information, encouraging violence and harassment against those he was victimizing. he was convicted only of a misdemeanor, and he faced zero charges for the deepfake explicit images. and i'd venture to guess, some of the victims tried and failed to get these fake images removed by the tech company. i've spok

to ban sextortion, the act of threatening to reveal private or explicit images for money or access, and to protect adults and their private photos from being exposed. the internet is ever-changing and federal law must catch up. shield will protect americans' privacy online, shield will save lives. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: thank you. for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition? >> madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> madam speaker, in john 15: 12 and 13, jesus says, this is my commandment. mr. collins: that you love one another as i have loved you. greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. madam speaker, colleagues, green county fire rescue battalion chief chris eddie laid down his life for his friends on september 4, 2024. while battling a tractor trailer fire on highway 15, north of greensboro. chief eddie grew up in green county and graduated from t