'I have your daughter:’ Virtual kidnapping scam alarms mom скачать в хорошем качестве

'I have your daughter:’ Virtual kidnapping scam alarms mom

A Florida mother said she was a victim of a kidnapping scam. She said it began with a disturbing phone call with a whimpering child heard on the line. It was a number she didn't recognize, but Katie Watson picked up the call anyway. “It sounded sort of like a kid’s voice sort of muffled crying. Maybe like they were trying to talk but I couldn’t understand what they were saying,” Watson said. For the next few seconds, she tried to communicate with the child, thinking they were trying to reach a parent. "All of a sudden, a man's voice came on the line, and he said, 'Katie I have your daughter. She's in the back of my van,'" Watson said. It was Monday afternoon, and Katie's daughter Chloe would be at school. “I had already had these alarm bells going off in my head, like this has got to be a scam. I just picked up the phone and said, ‘This is scam,’ and I turned the phone off.” But to be sure, she checked her daughter’s GPS location on her phone, which showed her at Westglades Middle School. “I got chills all over my body, and I was like, ‘OK, I know that was a scam,’ but that’s like every parent’s worst nightmare is to hear that your kid has been kidnapped,” Watson said. Her husband’s internet search showed the number was from Mexico. The FBI has been tracking the scam for years. Between 2013 and 2015, these schemes came from Mexican prisons. Jailed fraudsters would obtain cell phones and search area codes online.