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NY: Phone Scam Targets Brooklyn Man With Bloody Pictures, Threatens To Kill His Family Unless He Pay

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TomSea:

--- Quote ---Phone Scam Targets Brooklyn Man With Bloody Pictures, Threatens To Kill His Family Unless He Pays Alleged Cartel
August 13, 2019

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A Brooklyn man says he received a terrifying threat from a stranger, threatening to kill him and his family if he didn’t hand over money.

It began with a quick and eerie phone call from an anonymous person asking for money; then things quickly escalated.

“Just look at those pics… oh my God,” former New York assemblyman Dov Hikind said.

“Blood, gory, horrible.”

Read more at: https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/08/13/scam-brooklyn-bloody-pics-cartel/
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It's probably a total scam but scary and could probably happen in a lot of places in the US, it's interesting, they say the crooks get their info probably from social media webpages.

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