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Police know of four cases across NSW in the past month, with Chinese students as young as 17 targeted and ordered to pay sums of up to $280,000 or face being deported.
Chinese international students in New South Wales have been warned to be vigilant about suspicious calls involving "virtual kidnapping".
The script is well known – the desperate cry for help, the demands, and the parent or sister or husband receiving the call is positively convinced their loved one is in danger.
The major difference for the victims is that in a real kidnapping someone is actually taken from someplace by force and held somewhere else until the ransom is paid. In a virtual kidnapping, loved ones of the victim are the ones who really suffer.
The major difference for the victims is that in a real kidnapping someone is actually taken from someplace by force and held somewhere else until the ransom is paid. In a virtual kidnapping, loved ones of the victim are the ones who really suffer.