The strip search prank call scam was a series of incidents occurring for roughly a decade before an arrest was made in 2004. These incidents involved a man calling a restaurant or grocery store, claiming to be a police detective, and convincing managers to conduct strip searches of female employees or perform other unusual acts on behalf of the police. The calls were usually placed to fast-food restaurants in small rural towns, theoretically because (a) the population is usually more trusting of authority figures, (b) decreased level of education, and (c) fewer opportunities for gainful employment meant that workers would be more inclined to do whatever was demanded of them in order to retain their jobs. Specific chains were targeted because the managers of those particular franchises were trained to obey a written manual that described all facets of operating the restaurant in such details that independent discretion was removed from the managers[1]. Once taken out of that comfort zone, the supervisors would be more susceptible to the power of suggestion by someone they considered to be of higher authority.[2] The caller managed to motivate his victims by using fear; fear of jail, fear of losing their jobs, or fear of negative repercussions for non-compliance.