{"id":83179,"date":"2018-11-30T10:41:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T14:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=83179"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:33:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:33:03","slug":"five-inmates-charged-with-stealing-560k-from-military-personnel-in-online-dating-extortion-scheme-daily-mail-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83179","title":{"rendered":"Five inmates charged with stealing $560K from military personnel in online dating extortion scheme | Daily Mail Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Antwine Lamar Matthews,\u00a0Rakeem Spivey,\u00a0Jimmy Dunbar Jr, Wendell Wilkins and\u00a0David Paul Dempsey have been indicted on federal charges including extortion and wire fraud.<\/p>\n

Five inmates in South Carolina extorted some $560,000 from hundreds of service members by using contraband cellphones to pose as underage women on dating sites, authorities say.<\/p>\n

Standing in front of a state prison on Wednesday in Columbia, US Attorney Sherri Lydon told reporters that\u00a0Antwine Lamar Matthews, Rakeem Spivey, Jimmy Dunbar Jr, Wendell Wilkins and David Paul Dempsey had been indicted on federal charges including extortion and wire fraud.<\/p>\n

Ten others throughout the Carolinas have been charged with helping the inmates collect extortion payments via services including Western Union or PayPal.<\/p>\n

According to court documents, inmates used contraband phones to join dating websites, pretending to be women as they contacted and exchanged nude images with military personnel throughout the country.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For $560,000 you can call me and I will pretend to be anything you want … just sayin.<\/p>\n

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Once the targets had been reeled in, inmates then posed as an authority figure, such as a father or police officer, claiming the girl with whom the victim had been communicating was underage and demanding money to keep the exchanges private, according to Drew Goodridge of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.<\/p>\n

Fearful they’d be accused of disseminating child pornography, possibly losing their military careers, more than 442 service members handed over more than $560,000 total between September 2015 and January 2018, authorities said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Keeping our naughty conversations confidential is included in the price.<\/div>\n
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The inmates involved were identified in five federal indictments released Wednesday, according to WIS10. The indictments are outlined below:<\/p>\n