This is one of the most screwed up fraud stories I have ever read about:

This may qualify as the strangest familial extortion plot in U.S. history. It began in 2005, when Navy Lieutenant Commander David Richard Rosetter, head of the Military Sealift Command Office at Pearl Harbor, told his parents a weird tale…

Richard and Joan Rosetter, farmers from Granite Falls, Minnesota, were visiting their son and his wife Fia in San Diego when David claimed that Fia’s sister, Tau, had been injured while working at Walmart. Because Walmart didn’t want to pay on the worker’s comp claim, the company had the family under surveillance, he said.

Nine months later, the story would get weirder. This time David phoned his sister Luann in Rapid City, South Dakota to say Walmart was trying to kill him. He’d been helping Tau with her claim against the chain, and told Luann that Walmart wanted them both dead so it wouldn’t have to pay worker’s comp. The company’s killers might also come after David’s extended family, he warned his sister. She should watch her back.

Two months later, David and Fia visited Luann in South Dakota. This time, he convinced his sister that hitmen from the “Dreaded Burrito Gang” — we’re not making this up — had been hired to whack David’s entire family at Walmart’s behest.

Fortunately, he said, the Somoan Mafia would protect them, since his wife and her sister were both Samoan. But just to make sure, David called his parents in Minnesota and urged them to come to Rapid City immediately. If they didn’t leave within 20 minutes, the dreaded Burrito killers would arrive to whack them.  [True Crime Report]

Read the rest at the link, but how stupid can people be?  I understand that the parents are elderly and more easily fooled, but his sister must be really dense to fall for such an obvious scam.