PETALING JAYA: "Pay the ransom if you want your child to be safe! Prepare RM50,000!"
That was what a scammer aggressively told his victim in a phone call that was recorded on a video which went viral on TikTok recently.
The suspect in the video also asked the mode of payment for the RM50,000 ransom.
In the two-minute video, the male victim who was receiving the call that claimed his child was detained by the alleged kidnapper, remained calm.
"What is my child's name? Don't talk too much, tell me the child's name first," he said to the scammer.
The suspect failed to answer the question and tried to change the topic, ultimately hanging up when he realised he had failed in his attempt to fool the victim.
As of press, the video posted by TikTok user @hafizahassan2023 two days ago, has been watched over 2.1mil times.
Last month, similar modus operandi of virtual ransom kidnapping were also reported in the Klang Valley.
Brickfields OCPD ACP Amihizam Abdul Shukor on June 22 confirmed that the police had received four reports of scammers posing as kidnappers.
He said the reports were lodged between June 13-15, and added that the preliminary investigations showed that a woman received a call asking for ransom money from an unknown person who had claimed to have kidnapped her child.
