This account, no doubt, is a sort of morality play where the victim sows the seeds of his own destruction through lewd behavior. An email version popular in Sydney, Australia, adds a good dose of local flavor. What distinguishes this telling is an alert that the crime ring is active in Sydney and Brisbane, a claim that the story passed through a Sydney firefighter, and the addition of contact information for a Sydney Medical Center. Such local color makes the stories seem real, which in turn speeds their transmission. For those tellers and tellees not yet of business-traveling age, we can offer the college party cautionary tale.
Reports frequently place the college victim in a university hospital awaiting a suitable donor.
Well, Urban Legends are folklore, and folklore is extremely difficult to trace. But we can make some educated guesses. In 1989, a story hit the British Press about a Turkish worker being duped out of a kidney. He was offered a new job, told he needed to undergo some medical tests, and woke up without a job offer and missing a kidney. The story turned out to be a hoax.