virtual kidnapping
the journal of Michael Werneburg
twenty-eight years and a million words
Toronto, 2017.01.23
In addition to CEO fraud emails, now there's virtual kidnapping. The "original" version, apparently from Latin America, involved a bogus contact to a parent telling them that their child had been kidnapped, without going to the hassle of actually securing the child. Now it's extended to vacationing executives, with simple techniques deployed to effect a low-risk cash extraction.