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Chinese exchange student found safe inside tent in Utah after ‘cyber kidnapping,' police say
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A foreign exchange student from China who was reported missing last week in Utah has been found in what authorities said was an apparent “cyber kidnapping” scheme to extort $80,000 from the student’s family.
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A foreign exchange student from China who was reported missing last week in Utah has been found. Authorities said the student and his family appear to be victims of a “cyber kidnapping” scheme. The 17-year-old student was reported missing Friday, a day after he was last seen at the home where he had…
A Chinese foreign exchange student was found alive in a tent in rural Utah after he went missing Thursday, following a "cyber kidnapping" scheme targeting his parents.
Police said the FBI told them other foreign exchange students, particularly Chinese, have been targeted in similar "cyber-kidnapping" scams in the U.S.
Chinese exchange student Kai Zhuang, 17, was found after he spent two days in the Utah mountains. The teen is a victim of a suspected "cyber-kidnapping" plot.
The 17-year-old student was reported missing Friday, a day after he was last seen at his home in Riverdale. Authorities said he was found in an apparent "cyber-kidnapping" scheme to extort $80,000 dollars from the student's family.
A missing foreign exchange student from China was found safe inside a tent on a Utah mountainside following a dayslong search in what police called a case of "cyber kidnapping."
A foreign exchange student from China who was reported missing last week in Utah has been found in what authorities said was an apparent “cyber kidnapping” scheme to extort $80,000 from his family.
A Chinese foreign-exchange student was found by police at a makeshift campsite in the mountains of Utah as part of an alleged extortion scheme concocted by online criminals. Police referred to the incident as a "cyber kidnapping.
A Chinese foreign exchange student who was reported missing last week in what police called a "cyber kidnapping" scheme was found shaken but unharmed inside a tent outside Salt Lake City after a daylong search.
A Chinese exchange student who fell victim to a "cyber kidnapping" scam in which his parents were extorted for $80,000, was found alive but "cold and scared" in a tent in the Utah wilderness, police said.
A foreign exchange student from China who was reported missing last week in Utah has been found in what authorities said was an apparent “cyber kidnapping” scheme to extort $80,000 from...
A foreign exchange student from China who was reported missing last week in Utah has been found in what authorities said was an apparent “cyber kidnapping” scheme to extort $80,000 from the student’s family.
