O.K., no one is going to point out the elephant in the room so I will. The real question is why are WOMEN so stupid. I know, I know, we're not allowed to think such things in that way in this society anymore, but these hoaxes aren't aimed at males. It's clear that we're not allowed to discuss obvious patterns anymore if those patterns point to A. high level government conspiracy, or B. are unflattering to women (noticing how trashing men though is flat out encouraged by popular culture).
As was pointed out originally, this is not new at all. Even after multiple occurences, there is still a section of women out there who almost seem to want to be scammed, or that expect to be scammed and won't verify (and somehow are so clueless that they've never heard of the previous instances that everyone else has). What boggles the mind is that her female manager (who absolutely should have known better) also fell for the whole thing and is also clearly devoid of intelligence.
As was also mentioned, this even occurred with a female CUSTOMER. It is impossible to fathom such amazing stupidity unless one lets go of the brainwashing that men and women are equal. Actually if you are observant you will notice that everywhere in media, women and feminity are actually portrayed as SUPERIOR, and men are dolts and hairy neanderthals. There is no attempt to sugarcoat the message in most programming that "the world would be at peace and would be fair if women ran it."
I can't claim credit for noticing this among situation comedies, but some years ago, I heard someone point out (the unbelievably obvious) that in every t.v. comedy, the man is portrayed as a bufoon and an idiot (frequently fat), while the wife is usually this attractive superhero/supermom/super organizer etc with no inherent permanent flaws. The male character is intentionally made to be so incredibly weak that the few flaws in the female character(s) have to be emphasized just to make things appear even by the end of the show. The male is always begging for things and is rather subservient to the female character. Sometimes this turns into open humiliation against the male character when they have the male say or imply that it is "his money" or "his house." The audience predictably lets out an "ooooooo" and the female character trounces him and puts him back in his subservient place.
Obviously, one could have a field day analyzing the specifics of why so many women are stupid enough to submit to a strip search just because somebody on the phone claims to be a cop. It's the last part of that sentence that speaks volumes about women that is rather chilling. In case you haven't noticed, women are fiercely loyal to the government control system these days. Notice how the fact that the police have zero authority to order strip searches over the phone does not even OCCUR to these moronic females who fall for this. What's scary, is that psychologically speaking, women are urged by nature to be loyal to the MOST powerful control system they can find (probably a mechanism to ensure offspring survive). As long as government remains the dominant control system, we're going to continue to see most women make amazing assumptions about police power like this. When all the real power was contained within the family unit, women were stunningly loyal to that system. Prior to 1950, women were mind blowingly loyal to their husband even when they had a really really bad one (obviously not a good thing, but take it up with nature and nature's God who programmed women).
Now, the ugly truth is that government has become women's super husband (think about it, government is super powerful, can't die, is endlessly corrupt, thus being the ultimate "bad boy," provides endless goodies, doesn't leave the seat up, and acts as a 24 hour "watcher," "listener," and "protector." Obviously, the human male just cannot even begin to compete with that). They walk around with their little cell phones and are just itchin' to dial 9-1-1 and summon government agents if so much as an ant farts (remember all the news accounts of SWAT teams being summoned by cell phone wielding women when young boys were just playing army, or to deal with a "man with gun" who is actually just using a camera with a long lens?).
It should scare the hell out of everyone to know that we have people who are so terrified to question things like strip searches for themselves. Even worse, our society is so conditioned to being a police state that these women totally assume that the "cop on the phone" must have the authority to order them from a remote location to strip search. Americans are getting so conditioned to having zero privacy and zero rights, that THIS ISN'T THE ONLY CASE where people assume, and behave as if government agents have all power. I'm always amazed at how many people I meet who ASSume that we already have FULL gun registration. I show them a gun or two and they ask me incredible things like "Soo, how much did it cost to register all your guns," or "How do you change the registration on your guns if you want to sell them." What's hilarious, is after I explain the truth to them, I've had folks (sometimes even gun owners) actually ask a different question that still starts with the assumption that gun registration is universal. The brainwashing is incredible to behold.
It's no wonder that police behave as if they have all power (and have become extremely arrogant, trigger happy, and downright abusive to people) when you have a population that has been conditioned to assume that they do. None of this bodes well for what's left of our privacy rights. Some people just can't seem to understand how we arrived in this mess as a nation. They just don't have the thinking skills to notice that it started with "benign" things like vehicle registration and social security numbers. Once you accept that government has some majical authority to number you and to register your property, liberty and privacy just go down hill fast from there. THAT, is how we arrived at the point where we have air heads stripping for pretend "cops" in restaurant offices. Kinda takes the humor out of it doesn't it?