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How BM Boys Are Using TikTok for Sextortion

Business Elites Africa
Last updated: 13/05/2025
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At the start search for, their videos search for fancy any diversified TikTok stutter material, young men exhibiting off stacks of money, style designer outfits, and flashy gold chains. 

However in the attend of the scenes, the so-called “BM Boys” are fragment of a rising and deeply traumatic online blackmail arrangement essentially based fully fully in Nigeria, targeting inclined children across the globe.

BM stands for blackmail, and these young men are seemingly to be not influencers in the primitive sense. They’re working a neatly-coordinated sextortion rip-off that begins with groundless online friendships and ends in emotional trauma, monetary loss, and in some tragic cases, suicide.

A groundless romance that turns into a nightmare

The rip-off usually starts on Instagram, the build BM Boys use groundless accounts posing as ravishing American girls. They send flirty messages to unsuspecting teenage boys in most cases in the U.S. and slowly lure them into sending nude photos. Once the photos are despatched, the entire thing changes.

By surprise, the friendly tone turns threatening. Victims are instructed that if they don’t send money in most cases up to $3,000 the photos will probably be shared with their chums, households, and schoolmates. 

In some cases, scammers mosey to this point as editing the victim’s image into groundless news articles or tv screenshots to create the menace search for genuine.

The psychological stress is big. Horrified and ashamed, many victims pay whatever they are able to. However even after sending money, some proceed to be pressured or are centered all over again by others in the identical network.

TikTok – A stage for crime and recruitment

Whereas Instagram is the build the BM Boys get their victims, TikTok has was their enlighten-and-show platform. It’s the build they flaunt the rewards of their scams vehicles, money, and sumptuous goods, and the build they put up coded updates for others attracted to joining the hustle.

These so-called “BM Updates” offer advice on easy solutions to procure belief with targets, groundless American accents, settle the staunch VPNs to screen Nigerian IP addresses, and use scripts and photographs stolen from grownup web sites. Some even share dispute enlighten samples intended to awe victims into compliance.

Their viewers? Different young men in Nigeria and West Africa who glimpse sextortion not as against the law, nonetheless as a instant formula out of poverty. Observation sections are in most cases stuffed with messages fancy, “Boss, please narrate me work.”

No Guilt, Impartial Survival

One self-proclaimed BM Boy, interviewed anonymously, claims to comprise made virtually $100,000 from blackmailing victims over eight years. He sees it as survival. Orphaned at a young age, he describes sextortion as “correct work” and feels no remorse, even when victims focus on ending their lives.

However the implications are very genuine. In the U.S. on my own, dozens of boys comprise died by suicide after being centered in these scams. In a single heartbreaking case, 17-12 months-faded Jordan DeMay took his existence in 2022 after falling victim to Nigerian sextortionists. Two of the lads interesting are now serving reformatory sentences in the U.S.

Despite the incontrovertible truth that platforms fancy Meta and TikTok notify they’re working to guard users, consultants argue that it’s not ample. In 2023, over 26,000 cases of sextortion involving minors were reported to the U.S. Nationwide Heart for Lacking & Exploited Young folks more than double the number from the old 12 months.

Some enhancements had been made, fancy blurring explicit photos and making teen profiles interior most by default. However as prolonged because it stays easy to join with minors online, the menace stays excessive.

What it’s good to know

The upward thrust of the BM Boys isn’t correct about one community or one nation. It’s about how platforms designed for enjoyable and connection may well presumably presumably even be crooked into instruments for manipulation and anguish. It’s a be-cautious name to folks, children, tech companies, and governments: online security isn’t any longer not obligatory.

In the attend of the flashy videos and groundless glamour lies a darker checklist, one the build shame, awe, and silence can designate lives. And all of it begins with a message that appears too suitable to be factual. Because it is.

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A groundless romance that turns into a nightmareTikTok – A stage for crime and recruitmentNo Guilt, Impartial SurvivalWhat it’s good to know

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