{"id":18785,"date":"2025-05-11T11:38:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T09:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/11\/bm-boys-the-nigerian-sextortion-network-hiding-in-plain-sight-on-tiktok\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T11:38:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T09:38:30","slug":"bm-boys-the-nigerian-sextortion-network-hiding-in-plain-sight-on-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/11\/bm-boys-the-nigerian-sextortion-network-hiding-in-plain-sight-on-tiktok\/","title":{"rendered":"BM Boys: the Nigerian sextortion network hiding in plain sight on TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US kids are falling prey to a sophisticated network of scammers who extort thousands \u2013 and push some victims to suicide<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/tiktok\">TikTok<\/a> video shows a young man fanning out a stack of $100 bills. A second flexes his designer clothes. Another man posts a video of himself dancing and wearing a heavy gold chain. They boast to their eager followers about their path to wealth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBM got me a new car,\u201d states one caption on a video. \u201c$5,000 in a few hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/11\/sextortion-nigeria-bm-boys-tiktok\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0bd93bb9524e2a2bf8132e1e35ac7369436bed55\/0_0_1500_1200\/master\/1500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b5f235c00a583c27c7885530821f49bd\" title=\"BM Boys: the Nigerian sextortion network hiding in plain sight on TikTok\" \/>US kids are falling prey to a sophisticated network of scammers who extort thousands \u2013 and push some victims to suicide<br \/>\nA TikTok video shows a young man fanning out a stack of $100 bills. A second flexes his designer clothes. Another man posts a video of himself dancing and wearing a heavy gold chain. They boast to their eager followers about their path to wealth.<br \/>\n\u201cBM got me a new car,\u201d states one caption on a video. \u201c$5,000 in a few hours.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US kids are falling prey to a sophisticated network of scammers who extort thousands \u2013 and push some victims to suicide A TikTok video shows a young man fanning out a stack of $100 bills. A second flexes his designer clothes. Another man posts a video of himself dancing and wearing a heavy gold chain. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/11\/bm-boys-the-nigerian-sextortion-network-hiding-in-plain-sight-on-tiktok\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BM Boys: the Nigerian sextortion network hiding in plain sight on TikTok<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18785"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}