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, which illustrates the phenomenon in grim new detail. In it, a Brooklyn couple who used the names Steve and Robin to protect their identities described waking up in the middle of the night to an unsettling phone call from the husband's parents.
"Mona, pass me the phone," she heard her father-in-law Bob say, before imploring her to "get Steve, get Steve." The man implored Steve to send him $500 on Venmo — which even in the moment seemed like an unusually small amount for a hostage situation — and then had another woman, perhaps an accomplice, pump him for $250 more.
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