BE CAREFUL OF SCAMS

My son woke me up the other night about 12:30am freaking out. He had been on his phone & was looking for a music app.  He found one & downloaded it.  Well all of a sudden a "message from the FBI" popped up & there is no way to get it off of there.  These people have all of his information that was on his phone.  There is also a page on there...the one he is supposedly "in trouble" for.  It has 4 porn pictures...TWO of which are child porn!!  Neither of us needed to see something like that.  It's horrible & disgusting.  The site says that you have to send $500 or you will be arrested or some kind of crazy thing like that.  That if you attempt to get rid of the phone or anything, that that will be considered a crime as well.  He was NOT looking at child porn.  Hell he wasn't even looking AT porn.  I tried to call his dad, because I'm also freaking out a bit by now. You don't want to have child porn ANYWHERE.  I couldn't get ahold of my ex...so decided to call the police.  I didn't call 911, but used the sheriff's office number.  She told me that she would get it to the right officer & have him call me back.  He did a few minutes later. I told him all that was going on & he said there are a lot of scams like that out there now & you just have to be careful.  He asked if I wanted him to come by.  I told him that I did.   So he got here & I showed him the phone & all of the pages on the phone.  He took down some information.  He said some of the pages looked "official,." but that then some weren't...there was a page that had a place that you could pay with a moneypak.  He wrote a report on it & told me that he would file it so that there would be a record of it.  He also told me to get in touch with the FBI & Straight Talk (who the phone is thru).  I went to the FBI website & they have a place to tell them about any issues, so I sent them a message.  I haven't called Straight Talk yet.  Hopefully this was all just a stupid thing & nobody is in trouble.  My son finally got his phone working again & erased all of that junk.  He knows better now.  So be careful out there.