A Scammer Called Fast Food Restaurants Pretending to Be a Cop to Torture Employees

Sometimes it's simpler than you might think to pass for someone else, and the outcomes might be far more shocking and deadly. That was the situation in 2004 when a con artist started phoning fast food establishments. While on the phone, the man convinced an 18-year-old McDonald's employee to be strip searched by acting like a police officer.

The employee was humiliated and tortured by the con artist for more than three hours, all at the hands of her manager, who later testified that she had been led to believe it was a police officer directing her what to do. The manager called her own fiancé to come and spank the girl for 10 minutes in addition to making the girl perform jumping jacks. Following then, things only got worse.

Due to the fact that McDonald's knew a fraudster was calling employees without informing them, the employee ultimately sued the company and won $6.1 million. In the end, a man was detained but not found guilty. However, following his incarceration, the calls did stop.