
Scammers targeting families with missing persons, FBI says
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Scammers are identifying missing persons through social media posts – the starting point for extortion schemes, the FBI said in an advisory.
The scheme typically plays out as follows. Through social media, scammers first gather information about the missing person and family, lending believability to their ransom demands. Then they typically get the family’s telephone numbers on social media and use third-party calling or messaging applications to make ransom demands to hide their real telephone number.More Related News













