How much of a scumbag do you have to be to do something like this?:

A particularly annoying trend for law enforcement officials is the growing number of people who are faking their own kidnappings for ransom. As most of the victims of the spoof kidnappings are the suspects’ own family members, police are complaining that there is little legal ground for them to arrest the perpetrators.

Last Sunday, detectives at the Socho Police Station in southern Seoul received a call from a young woman who claimed that her father, a 43-year-old Chung, had been kidnapped by his creditors for failing to pay off 58 million won in debts.

More than 2,000 police officers were deployed around Chung’s house to search for his whereabouts. However, the search was called off a day later when it was revealed that the abduction was a hoax, a scam organized by Chung himself.

Chung, a jobless man, said he was trying to trick his own family into paying the ransom, which he was going to use to pay off the husband of a 44-year-old woman he was having an extramarital affair with.