Terror Over the Phone: Virtual Kidnappings, Part 2

Published: Feb. 14, 2020, 5:01 a.m.

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In part two of this special two-part episode on virtual kidnappings, we speak with the FBI to discuss how these scams started, why they\\u2019re so successful and what is being done to stop them. We talk to the FBI Special agent who cracked a virtual kidnapping ring, and \\u2014 with virtual kidnappings on the rise in the U.S. \\u2014 you\\u2019ll learn what to do if you receive a call. Then, for the first time ever, fraud expert and our host Frank Abagnale and his son, FBI Special Agent Scott Abagnale, sit down to do an interview together. They talk about growing up in the Abagnale household, Scott\\u2019s road to becoming an FBI agent, and what it was like when Frank taught one of Scott\\u2019s classes at the FBI Academy.

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