Psychological effect of Venezuelan families subjected to extortion

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There is the one who robs us in the street, there is the one who subdues us with a gun, but there is also a new modality of delinquency, and I say new modality because I believe it has not been around long, but perhaps to some people it may seem that it has been around for some time.

The rather grotesque way that I have seen criminals operating is psychologically affecting Venezuelan families through extortion.

The way they operate is that they look for foreign phone numbers, they write by whatsapp messaging to the person that they have previously studied, that is to say that they know his life, they know the members of his family, then they start to threaten them that if they do not look for a certain amount of dollars they will kill all the members of his family, the worst of the case is that they know everything about the family they threaten and extort.

Many of these operations are false, many of these extortionists are in the prisons, they simply operate with people outside the prisons so that they pass them information of the person or family that they are going to extort, the families fall into the trap and deposit the amounts that they ask for. There is also the case that these threats are true, and there are people and families who have no way to pay what the criminals ask for, and then they kill them, in other cases people believe that they are false extortion and do not pay and end up killing them.

I don't know if this is happening in the big cities of my country Venezuela, but I do know that it is happening in small towns, like the one I live in.

The bad thing about all this is the psychosis of fear that the family that is being extorted has to go through, because every moment they write by whatsapp threatening that if they don't pay they will kill all the members of the family.

I only pray to God that my country will change and that the law will actually be enforced, and that in the end the criminals will be afraid to commit crimes.



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