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A very odd occurrence has taken place in India, kidnappers have requested the ransom to be payed out in BTC (LOL).
An Indian Bitcoin investor who lost his money in a scam has allegedly kidnapped a trader and demanded Bitcoin ransom as revenge.
According to the local news source Indian Express, a man by the name of Deepak, currently in police custody, kidnapped Banur trader Ashu Jain after accruing debts of around six mln rupees.
Having purchased Bitcoins he never received, as well as building up stock market debts, Deepak and a crew of accomplices demanded payment in the virtual currency for Jain’s safe return.
“Posing as an ‘investment consultant,’ he contacted some property dealers in Zirakpur from where he got the number of Jain,” a police officer attached to the “unique case,” told the publication.
A prime example of globalization of the virtual currencies, by means of employing the cripto-currencies as means of payment, the kidnappers are really putting it to the big man where the future is going
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/indian-kidnappers-demand-bitcoin-ransom/
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