On November 6, 2025, fifteen-year-old Bryce Tate came home from the gym, grabbed a snack, and shot some hoops in the driveway. At 4:37 PM, he received a text from an unknown number. By 7:10 PM, he was dead. In less than three hours, scammers had manipulated him into sending compromising photos, demanded $500, and bombarded him with 120 messages in the final 20 minutes of his life, convincing him this “one mistake had ruined his life forever.”