QuickCheck: Are people kidnapping teenagers to harvest their organs?

A message claiming that teenagers under the age of 15 are being kidnapped and their organs are being harvested has gone viral on social media. Is the message - which includes a price list for organs like the heart, liver, lungs and kidneys - true?

VERDICT:

FALSE

In a statement on Monday (Feb 7), Inspector-General of Police corporate communications secretariat Supt Skandaguru Anandan said that the message is untrue.

Supt Skandaguru said no police reports have been lodged linked to kidnappings and the sale of organs as claimed in the viral message

"We discovered that the fake message has been around since 2016 and has since been rehashed on several social media platforms recently," he said.