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A Teenager Commits Suicide over Police Ransomware
A British young boy committed suicide after falling victim to a ransomware scam – one of the common varieties notifying the user that they were visiting illegal websites and demanding ransom (in this case £100) for the police to drop the prosecution. The boy, Joseph Edwards, was a 17 year old A-grade student, but suffered from autism, which it is believed might have made him more susceptible to believing the scam he fell victim to was actually authentic.
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Terrible that it went down like that.
However, if he was that brittle, then it could have been anything, I guess. That one dumb thing was enough to send him over the edge. Just so happened to be a spam email.
Exactly, if it wasnt this it could have been something else.
Very tragic but where were the parents in all this??!