{"id":88198,"date":"2026-04-24T08:49:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=88198"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:49:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:49:52","slug":"pay-or-i-ruin-your-life-how-nigerian-gangs-terrorise-britains-teenage-boys-for-fast-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/24\/pay-or-i-ruin-your-life-how-nigerian-gangs-terrorise-britains-teenage-boys-for-fast-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pay or I ruin your life\u2019: How Nigerian gangs terrorise Britain\u2019s teenage boys for fast cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA21BWi6.img?w=534&amp;h=401&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Sextortion scam red flags\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree, two, one\u2026 Last chance to save ur life&#8230;. Pay money and go free\u201d. This is just one of the chilling messages used by scammers to trap young men in a growing \u201csextortion\u201d scam.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/pay-or-i-ruin-your-life-how-nigerian-gangs-terrorise-britain-s-teenage-boys-for-fast-cash\/ar-AA21C1i9?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&amp;cvid=b99bbe696d4549ca96cdf91a2c98cd44&amp;ei=17\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\u201cThree, two, one\u2026 Last chance to save ur life&#8230;. Pay money and go free\u201d. This is just one of the chilling messages&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Ogoshi-brothers.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88199,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88198\/revisions\/88199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}