A report about an allegedly kidnapped child is just a lure to get Facebook login details.
Many Facebook users are currently spreading a supposed newspaper article about a recent kidnapping. However, it is a perfidious lure: this kidnapping does not even exist, but curiosity causes users to fall into a phishing trap.
This is what the frequently posted post on Facebook looks like:

The article from a site called “Feedbizz” (probably a corruption of the site’s name “Buzzfeed”) is teased like this:
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Kidnapped child while family shopping in "We are currently asking Interpol for help and are talking to the police in" - Local Police Author Alex Smith An 8-year-old girl was visiting with her parents and "
What is striking about the teaser is that no place is mentioned, which also arouses curiosity: it could be a place nearby or your own place!
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Sometimes there is a place there
The article itself doesn't make you any wiser either: neither in the headline nor in the entire text is the location of the shopping center where the child is said to have been kidnapped located. However, a user's query shows us that sometimes you can see a place that is also your place of residence:

The article knows the future!
This morning, January 21st at 8:40 a.m. , we took a screenshot of the article and were very surprised: at that point the site already knew that there would be a kidnapping at 10 a.m.!

The solution to the puzzle: The current date is always used in the article so that it always looks up to date! This can be seen in the source code of the page:

The Phishing Trap: The Video
The article also apparently (!) contains a video that you should play in order to be able to identify the perpetrator. However, if you click on this video, you must first confirm that you are over 18 years old. This should be done by logging into Facebook (which in itself is nonsensical since Facebook is not only for those 18):

By the way, after you “log in” (for which we used fantasy data), you won’t see a video, but will be redirected to a statistics page . At this point, the criminals now have the Facebook user's login information and can continue to spread the false article.
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Conclusion
The article about a kidnapped child is purely a lure. The preview image of the video comes from a real attempted child abduction in June 2019 at Atlanta Airport/USA.
Users who clicked on the video and entered their real login details should change their Facebook password as soon as possible!
Article image: Shutterstock / By TY Lim
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