Chilean prisoners' 'virtual kidnapping' scam broken up by Spanish police
Sunday, April 12, 2015 @ 8:52 PM
POLICE in Spain have disbanded a 'virtual kidnapping' racket run by prisoners in Chile to blackmail thousands of euros out of residents across the pond.
Inmates in a jail in Santiago de Chile (pictured), the capital of the South American country, had been phoning Spanish numbers randomly and claiming to be holding one of their relatives hostage, demanding huge sums in ransom money.
They would keep the victim on the phone with threats of violence towards the 'kidnapped' family member, which would prevent the victim from hanging up and phoning the person in question to check they were safe, and with the intention of making them pay up in panic.
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