A Michigan family is speaking out about the dangerous rise in sextortion scams on social media after a Nigerian man allegedly drove their 17-year-old son, a high school football player and homecoming king, to commit suicide.
Jordan DeMay, a popular student at Marquette Senior High School, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on March 25, 2022.
Speaking to Inside Edition, his parents revealed that their son struck up a flirtatious relationship with what he thought was a pretty young woman on social media.
But that account had been hacked and sold to Samuel Ogoshi, a 22-year-old Nigerian who allegedly used the profile to force young men into sending him explicit images of themselves, according to Fox News Digital.