via Washington Post
看到这里不禁被托马斯的勇气深深“折服”,虽说背调做得比较马虎,连老头子是FBI和CIA前局长这个事实都没发现。都已经说了对方在国土安全部工作,他还要接着骗,这不是找削吗?
所以托马斯根本不会想到,第二天,韦伯斯特回电给他的时候,他已经完全暴露在FBI的监听下了。
在第一次尝试失败之后,托马斯没有立即放弃:
The caller tried again the next day, reaching William Webster once more, who told him he didn’t have the money readily available.
第二天,托马斯又打了一次电话。韦伯斯特告诉他自己手头上没有这么多钱。
via CNN
又没有得逞。不过这回他稍微耐心了些,等了一些时日,向韦伯斯特的妻子琳达下手了。
About a month later, Lynda Webster picked up a call from a blocked number on the Websters‘ home phone. Again, it was Thomas. The scammer in Jamaica said he was watching the Webster’s house -- even described to Lynda what it looked like -- and knew they hadn‘t been home the previous night.
大约一个月之后,琳达在家里接到了一个未显示来电号码的电话。接起来一听,发现又是托马斯。这个牙买加籍的诈骗犯说他在密切监视着韦伯斯特的房子,知道他俩头天晚上没在家住。为了让琳达相信,托马斯还详细描述了房子的外观。
via CNN
而琳达这边呢,不愧是跟FBI和CIA前局长过日子的人,什么大场面没见过?她不慌不忙,一边听着托马斯在电话那头吓唬她,一边拿起手机给一个FBI特工打了通电话。
This time, Thomas told her she needed to pay $6,000 or he’d find her at her white brick house and would put a bullet “straight to the head,” according to court filings.
根据法庭资料显示,这次托马斯告诉琳达她得付6000美元,不然就直接去他们那白色砖房里找她,还会“直接给她脑袋”来上一枪。
接下的几天,琳达又陆续接到两通托马斯的电话。他的威胁又进了一步,说再不付钱,就要把夫妇二人都杀了。除了威胁之外,托马斯还吹了个不该吹的牛:
Thomas “said that the FBI and CIA would never find him,” prosecutors wrote in their initial criminal complaint.
检察官在最初的刑事起诉书中写道,托马斯当时说“FBI和CIA永远都不可能找到他” 。
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