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CENTRAL AMERICA
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| Friday 22 October 2010 |
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Guatemalan
Kidnappers
Use
Online
Social
Networks
GUATEMALA
- The
use of
social
networking
websites
to
kidnap
people
is on
the rise
in
Guatemala,
the
local
press
reported
on
Thursday.
Facebook,
Hi5,
MySpace,
and
Tagged
are some
of the
websites
where
criminals
look for
the
people
they
later
abduct,
Prensa
Libre
newspaper
said,
based on
investigations
by the
Public
Ministry.
Investigators
have
information
about
five
cases in
which
the
kidnappers
chose
their
victims
through
those
sites.
The
targets
are
chiefly
people
between
10 and
25 years
old who
are
invited
by
unknown
persons
who
claim to
be of
the same
age.
Guatemalan
authorities
reported
that
five or
six
kidnapping
gangs
are
operating
in the
country,
but a
new one
using
that
method
is being
sought.
The
kidnappers
begin
operating
when
they
create
false
accounts
on those
websites,
with
false
data and
photos.
Then
they
invite
the
victims
to chat,
they get
their
information,
and
finally
they
abduct
them.
The
accounts
are
created
at
cybercafes,
making
it
difficult
to
identify
the
criminals,
the
article
said.
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