(CBN News) – The FBI and local authorities are warning parents about two “virtual kidnapping” cases in which the suspects demanded a large ransom payment for the return of their child. As it turns out, no one was abducted in either case. But it didn’t stop one father from Laguna Beach, California from paying $5,000 to the suspect. “At 2:30 pm, the victim received a cellphone call from a suspect who stated he had
kidnapped the victim’s daughter and was holding her and wanted $5,000 or he would kill her,” Sgt. Jim Cota of the Laguna Police Department told The Orange County Register. The father immediately went to his bank and withdrew $5,000. He was then instructed to go to various locations outside of Laguna Beach in order to transfer the money to an account in Mexico. READ MORE