{"id":85262,"date":"2019-02-27T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=85262"},"modified":"2019-02-26T18:17:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T22:17:21","slug":"phone-scam-leads-to-soldier-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=85262","title":{"rendered":"Phone Scam Leads to Soldier Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Facebook photo of Jared Johns.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The dating site. Young men set up profiles, then try their luck with finding their next hookup. Through the course of the interaction, the photo exchange comes into play. The young man requests a “teaser” photo. The woman requests the same.<\/p>\n

Or, as many women have complained, men send an unsolicited picture of “Junior”.<\/p>\n

Jared Johns, a young Soldier, was not that much different from his peers with regards to hooking up on the internet. He had a profile. But, absent any information, one could only imagine what he did while on the website. In his situation, the plot thickened.<\/p>\n

He ends up with a text. It’s “a parent” who is irate over contact the Soldier “had” with\u00a0“an underage daughter”. The parent demands some money, to be sent to an account, in order for the “parents” to close down the “daughters” phone account and to open up a new account. This is also accompanied by a threat to involve the police.<\/p>\n

From the The Daily Mail:<\/span><\/p>\n

A 24-year-old South Carolina Army veteran with PTSD appears to have committed suicide after prison inmates pretending to be the parents of a 17-year-old girl targeted him in a ‘sextortion’ scam.<\/p>\n

Jared Johns, 24, of Greenville, South Carolina, killed himself on September 11, 2018 – the day after exchanging text messages with people who said they were the parents of a teenage girl and claimed that Jared had asked their daughter to text him nude photos.<\/p>\n

Jared’s parents, Kathy Bowling and Kevin Johns, told the Greenville News that they believe the teen and her parents were actually inmates at Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, South Carolina.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Knowing that no such thing happened, and not recognizing the actions that they were accusing him of doing, Jared Johns requested proof. They just responded with threatening him. He ended up taking his own life.<\/p>\n

When his parents attempted to show the scammers what ultimately happened, their response provided a hint… That the suspicions that the scammers were operating out of a prison… Were reasonable.<\/p>\n

You can read more on the Daily Mail<\/a> as well as on USA Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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