Child Kidnap Scam

A syndicate has been duping parents here into pay ransom for the release of their “kidnapped” children.

This was what happened to my counsin’s husband. One morning, he received a call from a China Chinese woman who told him that his daughter was kidnapped and demanded for a ransom of RM100K. The lady didn’t allow him to put down the phone so that he wouldn’t be able to find out the whereabout of his daughter. Despite that, he still borrowed his friend’s phone to contact his daughter but there was no one answering the call. They lady even asked someone to scream and ask for help over the phone and her voice resembled his daughter’s. He was trembling and requested to reduce the ransom to RM20K and they agreed.

He quickly went to a nearby bank to withdraw money. Luckily, he met a Chinese lady who are kind enough to notice that something wasn’t right. She asked him why he wanted to withdraw one big lumpsum. He told him that it is used to pay for the ransom. The bank staff asked him to call back home to check his daughter whereabout first. Then, he contacted my cousin and found out that his daughter was having a meeting and that was why she didn’t pick-up the call. Thank god his daughter is safe and he managed to hold back the ransom money.

When he tried to spread this news around, he is surprised to find out that most of his neighbours were already victims of this scam and their losses were between RM1-RM10K. Apparently, he is the most generous one. :P

BEWARE OF KIDNAP SCAM, FIND OUT THEIR WHEREABOUT FIRST BEFORE U PAY!