[This didn't seem to go through the first time, so trying again...] 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