Teenage Boy Is Kidnapped After Talking About BTC Returns Online.
21 Oct 2021, 08:00
Teenage Boy Is Kidnapped After Talking About BTC Returns Online
People will go through great lengths to get their hands on cryptocurrency. After all, assets are booming like they never have before, and bitcoin is on the verge of once again hitting $64,000 per unit, which was the new all-time high it achieved in April of this year. However, who would be nasty enough to kidnap someone over it? This is the situation at hand as a 14-year-old boy was taken against his will after talking about his growing crypto stash on social media.
The Boy Made a Lot of Money; Others Wanted ItThe boy is remaining anonymous at the time of writing, though reports have mentioned that he hails from England. He was stepping out of a restaurant in the town of Bradford when he was confronted by a gang of kidnappers who seized him, covered his mouth so he couldn’t call for help, and then shoved him into a nearby vehicle.
Muhammed Khubaib – the 22-year-old owner of the vehicle – reportedly punched the boy in the face with a sand-filled glove. The kidnappers then told the boy that he needed to call his mother and that she would need to pay a ransom of roughly 10,000 pounds or else her son “wouldn’t be going home.” After a bit of negotiation, Laura McBride – the boy’s mother – got the kidnappers to agree to a 900-pound payment. The boy was then returned.