This is a scam targeted at young people living abroad.
Posted Sep 8, 2022, 5:00 PM UTC
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The fact that people fall for this is even more surprising than the scam
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Probably most people don't. This kind of scam is very cheap to run: you can contact hundreds and hundreds of people at very little cost, and if only one person takes the bait, you stand to make a huge profit.
It relies on shocking the victim so they are less able to think straight. That's why the one that they use on old people is not merely, "Hey, grandma, can you lend me €20,000?" but, "Grandma, I've been in a car accident and a child died, and they say they're going to put me in jail if I don't pay them €20,000 right now."
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Btw, condolences on the loss of Queen Elizabeth II.
She wasn't my queen, still, the world now feels ... more surreal, a little more strange. As if something is lost that somehow offered a certain stability.
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With that username, how could she not be your queen?
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Thanks for this video, rewboss. Didn't know about this one, I remember a headline about a Chinese student being presumed as kidnapped a few weeks ago but then I don't remember any follow-up to that in the newspapers I check.
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Recently one girl in our University also went missing. She was later tracked, but I think this might have been the reason
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sorry, I still don't get it how they got the victim scared so much, if she didn't do anything wrong in the first place.
also, basing the scam warning on a claim of a person who was ready to stage their own kidnapping.. not sure.
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You've obviously never lived under a corrupt regime, then.
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Actually I emigrated from one, but I still have hard time imagining what would be their story. I mean, implying there's a "scam" behind means that the story is universal to more than a single individual. Are there multiple reports of such blackmail calls?
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Well, have you searched the internet to find reports about other instances of the same scam?
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I just did. Most of the "chinese blackmail scam" results refer to nude chat videos, which sounds quite more credible.
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What the actual fuck.
I'll add this one to the automod about people being called by police.