Man Sends Scammers $7,500 To Ensure Kidnapped Father's Safe Release, Report Says

SADDLE BROOK, NJ — A township man wired nearly $7,500 to scammers on Tuesday believing his father had been kidnapped.

The man received a phone call Tuesday and the caller said his father had been in a car accident, police Chief Robert Kugler said in a statement, The Record reported. The caller said that a fight had broken out and his father was being held against his will.

The man was told to send $1,900 in a MoneyGram to Puerto Rico and was later asked to send another $1,900 because the first order wasn’t received, the report said. The caller asked for another $1,900 or said the father would be killed. The man asked again for more money and the man sent another $1,500, according to the report.

The man was on the phone for four-and-half hours because, the report said, he was told that if he hung up, his father would be killed.

The father was never in any danger and the man found him later at home, according to the report.