Scammers are targeting teenage boys on social media and driving some to suicide

Post by wpietri » Fri, Apr 19, 2024, 1:08 PM UTC

graemep wrote: post #180

wpietri wrote: post #40

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It is called a scam because that's what the perps are going for. Their goal is to extract money. From the article: "The price was $300. He transferred the money via Apple Cash and pleaded to be left alone. But it wasn’t enough. Now Dani wanted $800." Maybe you know different teenagers than me, but I'm not expecting that the boys described here would be big on joining a rape support group.

I would describe that as blackmail. The legal term is different but its a serious crime and should be a police matter. The problem is victims may be scared or ashamed of reporting it to the police. In some places they may be guilty of a crime too. There should be support. I suspect there are sources of support but a victim of this may not think of looking of this.

Blackmail is how it ends up, yes, but the blackmail material is created through fraud, and the goal from the start is to extract money through trickery, so that part's a scam.

Post by bloomingeek » Thu, Apr 25, 2024, 1:42 PM UTC

graemep wrote: post #178

bloomingeek wrote: post #151

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Since grooming has become politicized, the hypocrisy is monumental and finally exposed. So called puritanism is the wrong direction, because as you pointed out, teens will do stupid things. What about the toxic masculinity culture taught by the right and the church? The right says, "keep these women under control." The church says,"women MUST obey their husbands no matter what." If that's not grooming, I don't know w…

I home educated too, and one of the big advantages is that it creates more opportunities to talk to them about things like this. > The church says,"women MUST obey their husbands no matter what." Which church exactly says that? Only a fringe group of American evangelicals. I have never come across even them saying "no matter what" although there are probably a few real lunatics who do. Here is the view of the the lar…

Sorry, I should have mentioned I was referring to the protestant side of evangelicals. The unwritten rule on marriage there is the man always overrules.

Many evangelical fundamentalist churches, for example, use the material from The Institute in Basic Life Principles. On marriage it says,"A husband's authority over his wife is God-given, as is his wife's non-negotiable duty to submit to him; she must respect his position regardless of his "deficiencies".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_in_Basic_Life_Princi...

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