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The phone rang. It wasn't a number she recognized, but distracted by the bleeding thumb, she answered it. Mom always answers the phone.
She heard screaming. It sounded like her 23-year-old daughter's voice, begging for help. Then an unfamiliar voice announced, "We have your daughter."
What followed next was five hours of hell. And it was all a scam...
Police call it a virtual kidnapping — an old scam that is having a renaissance across the country and particularly in the Washington region. The callers target affluent areas and find enough information online to make their ruse plausible.
Mueller, 59, had no idea that she was being played. She believed her daughter's life was at stake and did everything she was instructed to do.
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‘We Have Your Daughter’: a Virtual Kidnapping and a Mother’s Five Hours of Hell
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 23 2016, @10:08AM
My response...
Ok great, but if you decide to return her it'll be a $50,000 fee. OTOH considering how much damage Tabby the destroyer is capable of, they still might save money by returning her promptly.
God save the dumb fuck who tries to take her, I've been trying to get her out of the house for years now. She's like a fucking homing pigeon.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 23 2016, @04:16PM
"The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry