Montreal police are investigating after at least five businesses reported receiving an email containing a bomb threat and demanding bitcoin payment.
“They were asking for $20,000 in bitcoin payment,” Montreal police spokesperson Jean-Pierre Brabant said of the unknown sender. “Each business received the same email.”
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Brabant said the targeted businesses were in Ville Saint-Laurent, Rivière-des-Prairies, the Town of Mount Royal and Anjou and that nothing linked the companies to one another.
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Officers searched each location but did not find anything suspicious, Brabant told Global News.
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An investigation is underway to determine the source of the email.
Cities across Canada and the United States have reported receiving similar threats.
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