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At 8/27/2008 09:49 AM Wednesday, Thomas P. Carter wrote:
>One of our faculty is getting them with the following text:
>
>"Hey We have hijacked your baby but you must pay once to us $50 000. The
>details we will send later...
>We has attached photo of your fume"
>
>
>To me, this is above the pale. Should this be reported to someone?

The resurgence of this scam has now been covered on Slashdot, see here

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/08/29/045231.shtml

and here

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/32055

-- dkm