Jim Sullivan's son, Jack, was extorted by men from Nigeria who targeted him with fake social media accounts. Read more Jose F. Moreno / Staff Photographer

by Chris Palmer Published Oct. 28, 2025, 2:18 p.m. ET

The first message Imoleayo Samuel Aina sent to Jack Sullivan was innocuous enough.

“Wyd,” Aina wrote, meaning: “What you doing?”

Aina, who was living in Nigeria, used Instagram to reach out to Sullivan, a student at Kutztown University, and was using a fake account to pose as a woman named “Alice Dave.”

Aina’s messages then quickly progressed from a deceptive campaign of flirtation into a twisted form of blackmail, court records show — one involving a request for intimate photographs and then relentless demands for money.

The episode reached a tragic conclusion just 1

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