Posted on 10/04/2016 3:43:00 PM PDT by iowamark
Wendy Mueller was standing at the copper sink in her gorgeous, historic Leesburg, Va., home last Wednesday afternoon when the knife she was holding slipped and cut her thumb.
Then the phone rang.
It wasn’t a number she recognized, but distracted by the bleeding thumb, she answered it. Mom always answers the phone.
She heard screaming. It sounded like her 23-year-old daughter’s voice, begging for help.
Then an unfamiliar voice announced, “We have your daughter.” Wendy Mueller, who was the victim of a fake kidnapping scam last week, at her home in Leesburg. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)
What followed next was five hours of hell.
Police call it a virtual kidnapping — an old scam that is having a renaissance across the country and particularly in the Washington region. The callers target affluent areas and find enough information online to make their ruse plausible.
Mueller, 59, had no idea that she was being played. She believed her daughter’s life was at stake and did everything she was instructed to do.
The kidnapper told Mueller to put her phone on speaker, get her purse and her phone charger, and get into the car.
“How much cash can you get right now?” he asked.
What is a daughter worth? Anything. Everything.
“$10,000,” she replied.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I think you know nothing of black, poor (lower class) neighborhoods.
Tip: If the economy gets worse, avoid lower class, black neighborhoods. Even if you happen to be all or part black.
You grew up without money but you were not poor!
Tell the scammers you’ll have to pay me 10 grand to take her back. Click.
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