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Thursday, November 23, 2023

People still fall for this shit?

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- On Wednesday morning, the Oakland Unified School District alerted families to a kidnapping phone call scam. 

"Telling someone that (they've) kidnapped their child and that (they) are not going to give them back, unless that person gives them money. It's really a grotesque thing to do to anybody," says John Sasaki, Communications Director for the Oakland Unified School District.

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Seriously, this scam has been going on for years now.
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7 comments:

  1. bogsidebunnyNovember 23, 2023 at 7:26 AM

    I might fall for it if the caller said they had my dog.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 23, 2023 at 7:34 AM

    If my sister got a call like that she'd ask how much would they charge to keep them, and will they take Visa or Mastercard.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 23, 2023 at 8:52 AM

    They are using AI voice sampling now as part of the newest ones. They pull a voice sample from a video off social media and then get the AI to beg for help in the kids voice.

    Exile1981

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  4. BadFrog.November 23, 2023 at 9:22 AM

    It puts the 'kidnappers' in the same boat as Hamas. Nothing more to say than that.

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  5. AnonymousNovember 23, 2023 at 9:29 AM

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WiJtS--7OUI

    Why Asians don't get kidnapped.

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  6. Lord of AllNovember 23, 2023 at 11:29 AM

    This happened to my wife and I. A caller claimed that our two teenagers had been kidnapped. We told the kidnappers to keep them and went on a cruise....

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  7. AnonymousNovember 23, 2023 at 2:43 PM

    Child Protective Services often makes the practice officially sanctioned, I've heard.
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