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A suspected sextortion blackmailer, Olamide Shanu, is believed to have made up to £2 million by threatening to release embarrassing photos and videos of boys.

Shanu, a 33-year-old Nigerian, will appear in court in London later this month after an extradition request from the United States.

He is accused of posing online as a teenage girl to persuade boys to send sexually explicit photos.

It is alleged he then threatened to send the compromising images to his victims' families, friends and even the media if they refused to pay him.

At least three British schoolchildren have killed themselves as a result of being blackmailed over sexually explicit images.

According to Mail Online, one alleged victim set up a payment plan with Shanu, sending him £240 a week until he had handed the blackmailer almost £8,000.

Shanu's cryptocurrency is believed to have received more than 6,000 payments over three years, leading investigators to estimate the number of victims to be in the hundreds.

According to The Times, the threat is believed to have come from Nigeria.

Shanu is accused of being involved in an international blackmail scam.

He was arrested in Surrey at the end of last year and is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on May 28.

The alleged blackmailer is wanted in the US on charges including conspiracy to cyberstalk, interstate communications with intent to commit extortion and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

The US Secret Service has alleged that Shanu and other conspirators used fake and stolen online profiles with pictures of attractive women to target boys through Instagram and other social media platforms.

They then persuaded their victims to send explicit images and videos of themselves and even to appear naked in 'live chat' sessions while the conspirators posed as adult film actresses to hide their true identities.

The victims were threatened and blackmailed into making payments either through gift cards or via cryptocurrency.

Blackmailers also used stolen Snapchat s to target American victims.

The payments were all traced to an in Binance, a popular cryptocurrency exchange, which was opened using Shanu’s port as proof of identity along with an address in Lagos.

By the time the was traced, it had been emptied of $2.6 million-worth of bitcoin amassed in the previous three years.

Luke Lack, a Secret Service special agent, wrote in the criminal complaint that the Binance had received funds from victims of various frauds, including sextortion and romance scams.

Secret Service investigators allegedly linked the to email addresses containing other identity documents belonging to Shanu, and screenshots of messages showing his involvement in the sextortion scheme including one with the name Chloe Walterz.

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Murray Dowey, a 16-year-old from Dunblane, UK, took his own life after he was 'sextorted' by a scammer.
Linked story: 'They killed our son': The devastating impact of sextortion scams as cases soar
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bringing our great country to disrepute. This sophisticated individuals. same way our sophisticated president cant improve the country with his sophistication.

Man's inhumanity to man.

Check how decent most of the comments are. Most of the first 60 comments would have been based on tribal bigotry if Olamide is an Igbo name. Obi and IPOB would have been mentioned many times and the entire Igbo tribe would have been condemned if Olamide is an Igbo name. Crimes cut across every tribe and every society. But fools on NL act as if only the Igbo tribe commits crimes.

I sincerely do not mean to shade any tribe. I am only emphasizing on the discrimination that happens on this forum. Check all the crime posts on NL, you will confirm that the ones that have Igbo names as suspects are treated differently.

the problem is this one will be sentenced to a jail abroad. them for sentence am to serve in kirikiri. make body tell am

how is this not on the front page abi are we hiding fraud now. nairaland mods are slow

This crime of blackmailing is being legalized here in Nigeria by loan apps aka loan sharks. They boldly post BLACKMAILING AND MISSINFORMATION about Nigerians on WhatsApp and Facebook.

Loan apps aka loanSharks are scammers. Blackmailing is a scammers modus-operandi. they threaten you to obtain monies from the victims. Nigerians are now victims of loan apps that keeps re-emerging with several names but same people


The federal government should please stepup and get ride of ALL LOAN APPS. They are a menace to Nigerians. Before they came, Nigerians were living a life devoid sucide. Now loan apps has increased our tension.

Federal government should please scrap all loan Sharks. They are not loan-apps, they are loanSharks killing Nigerians in several ways.
They are blackmailers

Over 6,000 payments in 3 years??
This sextortion thing should be what these yahoo boys have been using to feed. As for Shanu, unlike hushpuppi, your evil scam led to people commiting suicide and their justice system may never forgive you.

Proudly representing the west people

But seriously you can't blackmail me with my nudes, you will only make me popular, i don see the big deal in it wey go make person commit suicide

Suffersticator has developed the science of remote skull-mining

Koralords:
But seriously you can't blackmail me with my nudes, you will only make me popular, i don see the big deal in it wey go make person commit suicide

How will you see the big deal?
We are talking about children in good countries where their lives have been planned for a bright future.

They are greatly shaken by any thing (bad govt, bad news, mental or physical attack) that will affect the smooth life unlike you that will simply say GOD WILL HELP US when people play with your life.

The threat of leakage of such material puts them in a terrible spot where they feel helpless like their future has been ruined and their family has been let down.

Do you think any scammer will be sending YOU messages for your nudes? You wey go even beg scammer for money.

How these people discover and invent crimes baffles me

The pervert them

Na dem. Thats why they Tinubu cos they want a society of lawlessness

Gud for him.

For the love of benz and lexus.

Some Nigerians are hell-bent on tarnishing the blurry image of this country.

You joking right. You dey hold any position or you get any influential fam member?

Koralords:
But seriously you can't blackmail me with my nudes, you will only make me popular, i don see the big deal in it wey go make person commit suicide

He probably has bought a house in Lekkki.
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I don't know how people feel comfortable enjoying the proceeds of scamming people of their hard earned money.

Worst is, they don't know when to stop, where to draw the line.
Even if it costs their victims everything including their lives, they still continue without remorse.
Heartless!

Good for them

He should find his way to Nigeria. In a few years, he would be able to run for governor and hailed as a first class product.

The value system in Nigeria is non-existent.

OgbeniOja1:
the problem is this one will be sentenced to a jail abroad. them for sentence am to serve in kirikiri. make body tell am

He might use bribes from his proceeds of crime to bribe his way out of prison in Nigeria or at least buy preferential treatment.
But the prisoners in US jails will mess him up big time.
They don't cut any slacks for people who commit crimes against kids.

He is truly cruel. No iota of comion in him

so this fool makes it to the UK and the best way he could appreciate the hospitality of the British people was to start scamming people. I dont see any reason why this guy should remain alive

Lesson: Never send your nudes to anyone.

Yet, some of y’all still defend these boys.

Continue! Till they finish your country’s good reputation. Imagine! To get a US visa now na wahala. Something wey b beans many years back

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