'Scariest moment of my entire life': Woman's stark 警告 about scammer who duped her out of $500 after calling from her sister's number and （人命などを）奪う，主張するing he had KIDNAPPED her

One Ti kTok 使用者 has 問題／発行するd a stark 警告 after 存在 duped into sending $500 to a hoax 報知係 who （人命などを）奪う，主張するd he had kidnapped her sister. Beth Royce (pictured), from Pennsylvania, 詳細（に述べる）d her 'terrifying' experience as part of a three-minute-long TikTok ビデオ in a 企て，努力，提案 to 妨げる the same thing happening to others. In the clip, which has so far been 見解（をとる）d more than 6.3 million times, she explained that she was woken up about 7:20am by a phone call, which appeared to be from her sister.?However, when she answered the phone, she was met by a man's 発言する／表明する who （人命などを）奪う，主張するd he had kidnapped her and 需要・要求するd money.

In her ビデオ, Beth speaks to camera as she explains that she is very savvy when it comes to scams, but this one had 完全に caught her out. She says: 'It's so hard for me to 述べる to you how real this all sounded. Like, I'm not an idiot. I'm so good at spotting phishing emails. I'm so good at spotting spam calls. I never 落ちる for anything. And this was like, the realest, scariest moment of my entire life. Literally.' Beth said when the call （機の）カム through, it was her younger sister's 接触する that appeared along with her photo and 'it looked 正確に／まさに like [she] was calling.' Thinking it was her sister, who lives in Seattle, Beth took the call, but she was shocked when she 迎える／歓迎するd by a 'man's 発言する／表明する on the other end 叫び声をあげるing' at her.

述べるing the chain of events, she said: 'He sounded 完全に unhinged. He sounded crazy. I heard muffled [crying] in the background that sounded like a woman's 発言する／表明する so of course I was like, "Oh my God, that's my sister." I fully 100 パーセント believed that this was real, 特に since it was her 接触する that popped up on my phone. It wasn't some 無作為の number.' In an 成果／努力 to stop the 状況／情勢 from 増大するing, Beth said she tried to 静める the mystery 報知係 負かす／撃墜する and kept him engaged in small talk for about 15 minutes. The fraudster said that he needed her to send him some money so he could get home as he had just got out of 刑務所，拘置所. He told Beth that he was not a bad person and started crying.?The TikToker said that the 'most 冷気／寒がらせるing' part of the conversation was when she heard a cry in the background and the mystery man said 'listen you need to 静める 負かす／撃墜する you're gonna 傷つける yourself.'

'I'm gonna get money from your sister and then everything's gonna be 罰金. I'm going to let you go,' Beth 追加するd, repeating what she heard the scammer say. Beth ended up sending him $500. Luckily though, she wasn't home alone as her mom had been staying with her. When she first got the call and realized there was something awry, she ran downstairs and woke her mom 'but silently because the guy was telling me not to tell anyone.' Beth's mom phoned the police and then she continued taking the call on her 前線 porch because she did not want the guy to hear any background noise. Still worried the man had her sister, Beth said she was 'terrified' he might kill her. After calling the police, her mom went about calling her sister's number and bizarrely she 選ぶd up. To her 救済, Beth said this was when they realized her sister was 安全な and the call was a hoax.?But, although it 証明するd to be scam, she said that she was left 'traumatized' by the ordeal and 'worried about PTSD.'

申し込む／申し出ing advice to others who might find themselves in 類似の 状況／情勢s, Beth said: 'I'm not kidding, if you get a call like this I read that it's recommended that you hang up and then すぐに call 支援する because it will call your actual 接触する.' Since 地位，任命するing about her ペテン師's call, Beth has been inundated with words of support from テレビ視聴者s. One 使用者 wrote: 'I still can't believe human 存在s can put other human 存在s through this 肉親，親類d of 恐れる and 騒動. The 欠如（する） of empathy is shocking. I'm so sorry.' Another advised: '絶対 接触する a therapist to 過程 through this, th at sounds legitimately traumatic.' And a third said: 'This must've been terrifying!! so sorry you had to go through this! I had no idea scammers could be that clever!' Beth has said that she is now 試みる／企てるing to retrieve the $500 she paid out from her bank. Nearly $40 billion was lost last year to phone scammers in the US, によれば 研究. The 連邦の 貿易（する） （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限 asks 犠牲者s of phone scams to 報告（する）／憶測 the 出来事/事件 at ReportFraud.ftc.gov.

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