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Intelligence Note
Prepared by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)
Asian Extortion Scheme
The FBI is currently aware of a nationwide attempt to extort ethnic
business owners, mostly of Asian descent, through telephonic threats
of violence. The telephone calls appear to be originating from
foreign countries. The caller acquires an adequate amount of open
source information about the victim through Internet searches. This
misleads the victim into believing the subject has personal
knowledge about the victim. There have been no reported incidents of
violence actually perpetrated to date.
Individuals who receive phone calls or e-mails containing threats of
violence and their personally identifiable information (PII) are
encouraged to contact law enforcement as well as file a complaint at
http://www.ic3.gov/.
美國聯邦調查局目前正在全國範圍內通報一起以詐騙勒索亞裔業主爲主要目標的犯罪活動,他們通過電話威脅使用暴力來達到犯罪的目的。這些勒索電話一般是從國外打來的。首先犯案者通過搜索互聯網等公共信息來源蒐集到受害人的有關信息,用以誤導受害人誤以爲來電者與自己熟悉或認識以達到犯罪的目的。目前還沒有收到犯案人實際使用暴力的有關報道。
任何個人在收到到這類電話或電子郵件,其中包含暴力和威脅及其個人身份信息(PII)時,希望您聯繫有關執法部門以及通過互聯網http://www.ic3.gov/提出申訴。 |
