The FBI is warning about a scam known as cyber kidnapping after a 17-year-old Chinese exchange student in Utah fell victim to the crime.
Police found the student in a tent and said scammers demanded an $80,000 ransom from his family.
Cyber kidnapping, also called virtual kidnapping, can take on different forms but it is always an extortion scheme; however, despite the name, scammers don’t actually kidnap anyone.
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