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This is first of its kind. We've never done an operation that is centered around sextortion. We've been doing many on BEC, on auto theft and, you know, different kinds like that. We've had Operation Wire Wire, Operation reWired, Operation Gold Phish, Eagle Sweep which are all almost on BEC. So this is the first time will be doing an operation solely for sextortion. And then sextortion, you know, it's a kind of new fraud coming up with youngsters in Nigeria. They see it as a kind of a crime that they engage in and they see it as a game. Because most of those I've interviewed—I've been in interview of most of these fraudsters—and when you ask them is this work or is this a game. So it's either a job for them or a game for them. And I think it is they also find it easy to do because they are not actually seeing the person they are hurting. So they don't see us, you know, like they are doing anything bad. Yes.

And again, because the victims, the merely targets are youngsters, minors, people mainly under 18 years old. They also just think, oh, they are playing a game with you fellow youngsters, some youngster but in another country far away from Nigeria. And they don't see that as something that they can easily be arrested because you can't see them. They don't know where they are.

But unfortunately they are wrong because with the collaboration between the FBI and other national law enforcement agencies, especially the EFCC as it relates to sextortion, there's no hiding place for any criminal. If you commit the crime, you are sure that you do the time. Because wherever you are, whoever you think you are, you will definitely be hunted down and arrested and be made to pay for your crimes.