>friend texts me last week that he's being scammed/extorted
>tell him to go to the police immediately and ignore them because they can't do anything to him
>declines and says he needs my help, has to pay $10,000 now by Friday (today)
>already sent them about $2,000 via PayPal and a photo of his driver's license
>u wot
>the scammers friended him on Facebook with a fake account from our area supposedly to get his info, scrape his photos and posts
>fuck dude, just go to the cops already
>look up the name of the PayPal guy and it's a 42 y/o Nigerian-born man who got a CompSci degree in UK/living there requesting money in £GBP, might be a stolen identity, middleman, victim (coerced), or scammer
>meanwhile they force him to use Signal and keep threatening him and his wife
>e-report to FBI and FTC but they never follow-up, call and they won't even give me a report number and demand I e-report again if I want help
>have him send them an IP grabber link disguised as a crypto link that leads to a btc wallet website homepage
>first hit is null because it was opened in ChatGPT
>sends it again to another alias of them
>hits Nigeria multiple times, so I try to contact the Nigerian Cybercrime Center but their email bounces, e-report never sends verification to open account, and phone number doesn't work
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