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News Story
Intelligence Note
Prepared by the
June 10, 2009
Asian Extortion Scheme
The FBI is currently aware of a nationwide attempt to extort ethnic
business owners, mostly of Asian decent, through telephonic threats of
violence. The telephone calls appear to be originating from foreign
countries. The caller acquires an adequate amount of open source
information about the victim through Internet searches. This misleads
the victim into believing the subject has personal knowledge about the
victim. There have been no reported incidents of violence actually
perpetrated to date.
Individuals who receive phone calls or e-mails containing threats of
violence and their personally identifiable information (PII) are
encouraged to contact law enforcement as well as file a complaint at
www.IC3.gov.