A Pennsylvania woman is on alert after being scammed by a conman who claimed to have kidnapped his sister

A TikTok user has issued a stark warning after being tricked into sending $500 to a fake caller who claimed to have kidnapped her sister.

Beth Royce, from Pennsylvania, described her “terrifying” experience as part of a three-minute segment Tik Tok The video is in an effort to prevent the same thing from happening to others.

In the clip, which has been viewed more than 6.3 million times so far, she explained that she was awakened around 7.20 am by a phone call, which appeared to be from her sister.

However, when she answered the phone, she was greeted by the voice of a man who claimed to have kidnapped her and demanded money.

In her video, Beth talks to the camera explaining that she’s pretty clever when it comes to scams, but this guy totally screwed her up.

“It is very difficult for me to describe to you how real this all sounded,” she says.

Like, I’m not a fool. I’m pretty good at spotting phishing emails. I’m pretty good at spotting spam calls.

I don’t fall for anything. And it was the most real and most terrifying moment of my entire life. literally.’

Beth said that when the call came in, it was her younger sister’s contact who showed up with her picture and “looked totally [she] was calling.

Believing it to be her sister who lives in Seattle, Beth accepts the call, but is shocked when she greets her with “the voice of a man on the other end yelling” at her.

Describing the sequence of events, she said: ‘He seemed completely unhinged. He looked crazy. I heard muffled sobs in the background that sounded like a woman’s voice so of course I was like, “Oh my God, that’s my sister.”

I 100 percent believed this to be real, especially since it was her contact that showed up on my phone. It wasn’t a random number.

In an effort to prevent the situation from escalating, Beth said she tried to calm the mystery caller down and kept him engaged in small talk for about 15 minutes.

The scammer said he needed her to send him some money so he could go home because he just got out of jail.

He tells Pete he’s not a bad person and starts crying.

The TikToker said the “most chilling” part of the conversation was when she heard a seizure in the background and the mysterious man said “Listen you need to calm down you’re going to hurt yourself”.

I’ll get the money from your sister and then everything will be fine. I’ll let you go,’ Beth added, repeating what I heard the hustler say.

Beth ends up sending him $500.

But fortunately, she was not alone in the house because her mother was staying with her.

When she first got the call and realized something was strange, she ran downstairs and woke her mom “but silently because the guy was telling me not to tell anyone.”

Beth’s mother called the police and then continued to take the call on her front porch because she didn’t want the man to hear any background noise.

Beth, still worried that the man had fathered her sister, said she was “terrified” that he might kill her.

After calling the police, her mother started calling her sister’s number and she responded strangely.

To her relief, Beth says it was when they realized her sister was safe and that the call was a hoax.

But even though it was proven to be a fraud, she said she was “traumatized” by the ordeal and “worried about her post-traumatic stress disorder”.

‘I’m not kidding,’ said Beth, offering advice to others who may find themselves in similar situations, ‘If you get a call like this, I’ve read that it’s recommended to hang up and then call back immediately because it’ll call your actual contact. “.

Since posting about the scammer’s call, Beth has been inundated with words of support from viewers.

One user wrote: ‘I still can’t believe humans can put other humans through this kind of fear and turmoil. The lack of empathy is appalling. I’m very sorry.’

Another advised: “Absolutely call a therapist to work through this, it sounds legitimately painful.”

A third said: “That must be horrifying!! So sorry you had to go through this! I had no idea scammers could be that clever!”

Beth said she is now trying to recover the $500 she paid from her bank.

According to research, nearly $40 billion was lost last year to phone scammers in the United States.

The FTC asks victims Phone scams to report the incident in Fraud Report.ftc.gov.