The principle is simple: contact large fortunes with a patriotic streak, public figures and businessmen, and ask them for a favor: the French state cannot publicly pay ransoms for French hostages, they need these benefactors to finance such operations, for which they would be reimbursed later. To gain the victims' trust, the impostors make video calls, where one of them wearing a silicone mask pretends to be the Defense Minister...
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