Police in Fife are investigating claims that a 17-year-old boy killed himself because he was being blackmailed on the internet.
It is thought Daniel Perry had become involved in a scam where victims are befriended and tricked into making explicit webcam recordings.
These are then used for blackmail.
It has also emerged that the teenager had previously been urged to kill himself by anonymous users on the social media website ask.fm.
The site has been linked to the deaths of other youngsters.
Several messages were sent to Daniel on the site about three months before he took his own life on 15 July.
One of the messages read "kill yourself mate" while another said "you need to let a blade meet your throat".
Other users involved in the conversations at the time condemned the messages and pledged their support to the teenager.
Daniel, an apprentice mechanic from Dunfermline, died after falling from the Forth Road Bridge.
It appears he had been having online conversations with someone whom he believed to be a girl around his own age.
The day he died the teenager had read a message on his laptop saying images or video would be made public and shared with his friends and family if he didn't pay money into an account.
He was warned that he would be better off dead if he did not transfer the cash.
Less than an hour after replying to the message he had killed himself.
