A Facebook post showing a little girl with the text “A little girl from [Location] vanishes after getting into a stranger’s car. Help recognise stranger on video!” or “[Location] 8-year-old girl kidnapped on Sunday! Do you recognise kidnapper? [SEE VIDEO]” has been shared hundreds of times across Facebook.
The story is false, and takes you to a website that attempts to gather your Facebook password. You should not click this link.
The article headline appears to have been adapted for many different UK locations, with claims that the girl has been abducted from Salisbury, Weymouth, Watford, Buxton, Aylesbury and more. Different versions use pictures of two different girls.
There are multiple clues that this story has been falsified in order to trick people into giving their Facebook details.
Clicking on the links lead to articles from a Polish domain with multiple inconsistencies and grammatical errors. Some versions of the article claim that a girl called Alice was abducted in both March and January (others says February), they say she was abducted in an area referred to only as “downtown”, and they include a quote from a police “Captain”, a rank that does not exist in UK police forces.