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CASE 369  |  Quentin Cepeljac  |  May 5, 2024  |  UK
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DATABASE RECORD
  id                  369
  date                May 5, 2024
  original_date       May 5, 2024
  year                2024
  month               5
  quarter             2024-Q2
  victim              Quentin Cepeljac
  location            London, England
  country             UK
  scenario            Malicious Invitation - SocialEng
  description         Belgian barber brags about being successful crypto dealer to impress woman. She invites him to her luxury flat, which ends up being a trap. Turned out he only had £6.71 in crypto. Attackers were quickly caught because they had rented an AirBNB for the trap.
  kidnappings         1
  violence_torture    1
  drugs_alcohol       0
  weapons             1
  theft               1
  life_taken          0
  money_wanted        £500,000 in crypto
  coin_type           crypto
  reports             The Times
  notes               he pretended to have a lot of crypto, traveled to meet a woman, and she led him to a bedsit where he was attacked. After torture and threats, they settled for £2,000 from Cepeljac’s bank account.
  has_processed_date  0
  created_at          2025-12-04 19:28:20

AI SUMMARY  [revised on review, verified against the sources in this file. Live DB still holds the shorter bulk-import summary — apply this to it.]
  **Victims:** Quentin Cepeljac, a Belgian barber, lured to London.
  
  **Attackers:** A gang (number not recorded) that rented an Airbnb to stage the trap — a mistake that led to their quick arrest.
  
  **Attack Method:** Cepeljac had bragged about being a successful crypto dealer to impress a woman; she invited him to what he took to be her luxury flat, which turned out to be a bedsit set up as a trap.
  
  **Violence Used:** He was tortured and threatened.
  
  **Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** The gang expected around £500,000 in crypto, but he in fact held only £6.71; they settled for about £2,000 taken from his bank account.
  
  **Status:** Because the attackers had rented the Airbnb used for the trap, they were quickly identified and caught.

LINKED SOURCES
  [url]  https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/gang-kidnapped-barber-they-mistook-for-crypto-billionaire-n0hgdshvm

OTHER LINKED SOURCES
  [THIN]  url  None — extractor recovered very little; needs the WebFetch path or a site-specific rule
      https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/gang-kidnapped-barber-they-mistook-for-crypto-billionaire-n0hgdshvm

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generated from attacks-export-Gart-website.json + reported_K&R  |  case 369
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