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Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 6:32 pm

Chinese HitLads

The San Francisco television station KGO is reporting that someone
has been calling Chinese people in the area and threatening to kill them
unless the victim wires some money via Western Union.

Quote:

San Francisco police are investigating about 50 of these calls. In fact, police
in cities with large Chinese populations across the country say there have been
hundreds of them. One of the victims recorded her conversation.

...

"If they don't comply, they'll kill him or else they would harm their
children", said Jamison Pon as he translated one of the recorded phone calls.
"One of the victims told me they threatened to cut the limbs off their children
in front of them".

...

Police believe the callers get their names from the Chinese Yellow Pages, which
is also on the internet. Pon and Seto's binder is filled with more than 60
reported cases in San Francisco alone. They say so far, the extortionists have
not carried out their threats of violence.

News article:
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/san_francisco&id=6815874

Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 8:59 pm

Quote:

They demand $10,000 to $20,000 and tell the victims to wire the money, which makes the transaction untraceable. So far, victims across the country have paid a lot of money.

"There's the possibility over $100,000 that was wired over to China," said Seto.

Seto says the actual figure is probably double that because many victims haven't called police for fear of retaliation.

Nasty.