In a wave of “virtual kidnappings” from New York to L.A., scammers are targeting entertainment industry bigwigs, claiming to have abducted their children.
It turns out, the girl was nowhere near the Mexican border. She was seated in a classroom in a private New York City school attended by many entertainment-industry kids, finishing up her final exams. Her phone was turned off. The family had fallen prey to a scam that has rattled the elites from New York to L.A.
Before the couple hopped in their car and headed to the assigned Walmart, the executive called Herman Weisberg, a private investigator he has worked with in the past. Weisberg, a former NYPD officer whose firm SAGE Intelligence provides protection for a number of high-profile entertainment-industry figures, immediately called the school and ascertained the teen’s whereabouts, and then determined that the scammers were using a burner phone.
“It doesn’t take long to figure out where celebrities’ kids go to high school, who they hang out with, where they get Starbucks,” Weisberg says. “I had to go in [to the accounts of] at least one of my clients who had put out way too much information about their children’s lives and scrub what damage had already been done.”
,” which operated in Hollywood from 2008 to 2009. In that case, criminals targeted the homes of Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan when they were known to be out of town, information gleaned from their social media postings.virtual kidnapping
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