Unbelievable! South African Kidnappers Demand Ransom In Bitcoin


Just when we thought we have seen it all, a gang of kidnappers, which abducted a teenager near his home in Witbank, Eastern province of Mpumalanga in South Africa, on the 20th of May, has ordered the boy’s family to their ransom in the popular cryptocurrency called Bitcoin.

According to a local police chief, Leonard Hlathi, the kidnappers are demanding a cryptocurrency payment worth nearly $120,000.
Speaking in a press conference on the abduction, Mr. Leonard said: “They demanded that the family should deposit a sum of 15 bitcoins, not in rands. The parents don’t even know what these bitcoins are. They are not dealing in those things. They are in tatters as we speak.”

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