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An old Kidnapping Hoax that still works: Ipoh woman lost RM60,000!
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2 November 2015
READ ABOUT HOW A POLICE OFFICER SAVED A WOMAN FROM BEING SCAMMED…
‘If you hang up your son’s head will roll’: Mystery caller asks for $15k for ‘kidnapped’ son http://ebx.sh/1M5ALBK
By FOO JIE YING and NABILAH AWANG
For 1½ hours, out of fear, she stayed on the phone with a stranger.
“If you hang up, your son’s head will roll,” the caller, whom she believed to be a kidnapper, told her in Mandarin.
Scared out of her wits, Madam Lee (not her real name), said: “I started crying the moment I heard that my son was held hostage.
“I was ready to give them money in exchange for his safety.”
The mother of three, who is in her 60s, almost fell prey to a kidnapping scam on Oct 21.
Read the rest of the report here:
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12 October 2015
KIDNAP SCAMS IN SINGAPORE
Kidnap scams tripled in 2014 from 2013. The police received 422 reports of such scam attempts last year, 40 of which were successful – compared with 13 out of the 178 reported in 2013.
The Straits Times Spike in kidnap phone scams http://str.sg/ZuqA
Kidnap scams tripled in 2014 from 2013. Police received 422 reports of such scam attempts last year, 40 of which were successful – compared with 13 out of the 178 reported in 2013.
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Loved one held hostage? It may be a kidnap scam
THE customer wanted to withdraw $10,000 from her bank account, but something was wrong.
When staff at POSB’s Woodlands branch tried to make small talk with her, she was silent. Instead, she wrote on a piece of paper: “My son has been kidnapped.”
Branch service manager Kina Neo, 50, said of the encounter last November: “She looked like she wanted to cry.”
Ms Neo took the woman, a fruit seller in her 40s, to a private room and kept communicating with her through writing. The woman revealed that she had answered a phone call and heard what she thought was her teenage son’s voice begging for help. This was followed by another caller demanding $10,000 if she wanted to see her son again. She was ordered not to hang up so the caller could listen in on whatever she was doing.
On learning that the customer’s son was doing national service, Ms Neo managed to get in touch with his officer-in-charge and ascertain he was still in camp. The phone call had been nothing more than a hoax.
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These scams usually involve the victim getting a call from someone pretending to be their relative in distress. A “kidnapper” then comes on the line and demands they remit a ransom, usually to an overseas bank account.
– See more at: http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/loved-one-held-hostage-it-may-be-kidnap-scam#sthash.IlmpCju6.MVoHsyb3.dpuf
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