A Chinese foreign exchange student has been found safe after police say he became the victim of a suspected cyber kidnapping scam. Police believe the 17-year-old’s virtual kidnappers are in China and had been manipulating him for weeks and threatening to hurt his family. NBC News’ Liz Kreutz reports.
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This poor family this is heartbreaking I hope we can support them
I don't know if he was in on it, seems very suspicious that he pretended to be kidnapped until the money was paid..
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They paid $80K random without first even contacting law enforcement 😑
Sorry this is totally irrelevant! She has gorgeous eyes! Sorry had to make a comment.
So he was somehow pressured into helping the “kidnappers” by pretending to be kidnapped?
SCAM !!!!!
Like tron? Ok yea guy went in the video game…
And who was involved here with it? Question the host family next….
……………. so no person forced the kid to do anything? He just went and did it because harsh word online?
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Victim…? Sure. This kid was in on it until proven otherwise. There's no way this isn't an inside scam of some kind.
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Sworry, me wonk do tis no more
Didn't even know this was a thing. Glad to hear he's okay. 👍🏻