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Arizona mom terrified AI kidnapping scam tried to lure her into being abducted as she feared for daughter
A cyber kidnapping scam startled one mom into believing her daughter was making a pleading call to her after being kidnapped, but it was all an illusion to not only con the family out of money, but potentially abduct her [the mother] as well. "It was a back-and-forth," Jennifer DeStefano, a mom from Arizona, said Sunday on "Fox & Friends Weekend." "She called me crying and sobbing. I asked her what happened. She said, 'Mom, I messed up.' I said, 'Okay, what did you do? And then this man told her to put her head back, and then I got concerned. She said, 'Mom, these bad men have me, help me, help me, help me.' Then the phone fades off as this man gets on the phone and tells me, 'We have her.' It sounded as if the phone was being ripped out of her hand in that process of the conversation."