Posted on 10/13/2006 7:10:59 PM PDT by verum ago
Woman "kidnaps" son four times for ransom
MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish woman staged fake kidnappings of her son four times and got his father to pay her more than a million euros ($1.26 million) in ransom money, newspaper El Mundo reported Friday.
Police in the southern Spanish city of Seville arrested the woman and five accomplices, including the 15-year-old son who cooperated in the deception by calling his father on the telephone and begging him to pay up.
The father paid ransoms after the first three fake abductions without realizing the involvement of his son's mother, from whom he had separated. He became suspicious the fourth time and hired a private detective, El Mundo reported.
I think I would have been suspicious by the 2nd time, never mind the 4th time, but maybe I'm just not used to having family members kidnapped.....
Fool me once....................
Erm... the *first* time you call the cops and you offer a public reward for their heads. If you pay, it only encourages further blackmail.
Uh...slow learner.
When my kid was 15 I would have laughed and sent them a copy of "Ransom of Red Chief".
If you keep going back to the well, it will run dry.
Exactly. Does anyone here remember the fake kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr.?
Sorry, I don't. That's one of the things I've "heard of" over the years, but know absolutely none of the details about.
I thought he really was kidnapped.
You are so bad but you are so right. LOL
Fool me three times...
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