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Crooks who posed as movers would keep victims' belongings until they pay a ransom. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Federal prosecutors say a group of scammers made money by offering cheap moving estimates and then demanding exorbitant fees in exchange for returning their worldly possessions.

After customers’ belongings were on the trucks, the shape-shifting Brooklyn company would demand more money to unload them, prosecutors said.