What to do when scammers kidnap your daughter

You know how it is. You're just sitting on the couch relaxing when you suddenly get a text from a prison out of the blue, warning you that your daughter has been detained and needs your help. In a second, you go from an ordinary day to starring in Taken…

…Before you realize you don't actually have a daughter. Every day, some scammer somewhere in the world comes up with a new idea, and this seems to be the latest one on the block. Scammers will pose as lawyers representing an incarcerated relative who really, really needs help with their bail — and if you don't have an incarcerated relative, they're happy to invent one for you.

With the help of what might just be the single most incompetent scammer I've ever witnessed, scambaiter Pleasant Green has broken down this new scheme by carefully walking through it. While the guy on the other end of the line is truly awful at running this scam, that makes it all the better as a case study. Not everyone is going to forget to take the Gemini watermark off their interrogation room footage.

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: just because you don't think you'd fall for a scam doesn't mean everyone is immune. It's worth staying up-to-date on the latest setups — especially when they can be played with in such hilarious fashion.