214:- on July 13, 2023, Carlee Russell faked an emergency call to 9-1-1 operators and her brother's girlfriend. Russell claimed during the call she saw a small child possibly 3 or 4 in a diaper walking on the side of the I-459 highway in Alabama, USA. Russell drove her car to the side of the highway where she claimed to see the child. During the call with her brother's girlfriend a scream was heard and the phone went dead. Russell's car was found three minutes later with her wig, her Apple watch, her phone, and her purse inside with the car door ajar. The U.S. Secret Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and tons of law enforcement agents across the country searched for Russell for two days until her return. On July 24, 2023 through her attorney Carlee Russell released a statement confirming the entire kidnapping was a hoax. It is suspected Russell faked the kidnapping to gain the attention of a recent ex-boyfriend.
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221:- on January 7, 2011, Somália claimed he had been kidnapped at gunpoint before being robbed. CCTV footage later proved that he was simply late for training, and fabricated the story in order to circumvent the club's 40% wage drop in case of tardiness. Somália was charged with filing a false police report and on January 19, 2011, agreed to a deal offered by prosecutors to donate R$ 22,000 (approximately U.S.$ 13,000) to the victims of the then-
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