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‘We Have Your Daughter’: a Virtual Kidnapping and a Mother’s Five Hours of Hell
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.
Police call it a virtual kidnapping [washingtonpost.com] — 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.
Q: How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb?
A: One. Only it's his light bulb when he's done.
