MORRILTON, Ark.- A new year brings a new scam that the Morrilton Police Department is warning people about.

Police say they have received multiple scam calls regarding car accidents, drugs, and human trafficking, the phone number looks as if it’s local but after tracking it officials say it appears to be coming from overseas.

“I answered it; it’s my daughter on the phone, or at least what I thought was my daughter,” scam victim Nickie Hackler said. “She’s saying, ‘Mommy, I’ve been in an accident, and I need you to come get me.’ She says that her phone was broken in the accident, so that’s why she was calling from the weird number.”

Nickie and Jeremy Hackler told their daughter to stay put and that they were on their way, but then another call rang through.

“It’s that same number but this time it’s a man,” Nickie described. “He said, ‘I have to be honest with you, I have cocaine in my truck, and I just can’t have that.’ He said, ‘So I grabbed your daughter up and I threw her in my truck.’”

Picking up speed and pleading for a release, that is when her husband began pleading as well.

“He asked, ‘Who is that man in the background, and I said, ‘Well that’s my husband,’ and he said, ‘Oh there is an O’Reilly’s by you.’ He said, ‘I want you to pull into the O’Reilly’s and dump your husband out of the car,” Nickie said.

Nickie Hackler ignored the request.

“That’s when I knew they either saw me or were tracking me too because he said, ‘I know you didn’t pull in, you turned around,’” Nickie Hackler said.

She said, “I don’t feel safe dropping him off there, I am taking him somewhere safe,” and instead dropping him off at their driveway. Jeremy immediately ran to his truck to follow.

“As a father, you know, my number one job is to protect my child, so when you have someone on the other line telling you, ‘Do not call the cops, if you call the cops your daughter is dead,’” Jeremy said.

Jeremy tried to get a hold of their daughter but got no response. Nickie pleaded for her child’s life.

“It all happened so quick,” she said. “He didn’t want us to think, he didn’t want us to even have a second chance for a thought.”

That is when the demands began.

“The guy was like, ‘There is a U.S. Bank by Walmart. I want you to pull in, park in front of the doors. You have got to keep me on the phone,’” Nickie said.

The police report states the scammer asked Nickie to withdraw $5,000.

She said when she walked into the bank the texts began.

“I wrote on a little piece of paper to this lady, I am not safe dial 911,” Nickie said.

Police arrived within in minutes and, according to Nickie, as the sirens became in earshot of the phone, the scammer hung up.

Morrilton officers were able to contact their daughter’s work, where they verified that she was okay and had been there all day.

Both of them say it was the hardest night even though they knew she was safe and sound.

“The scariest part was they had my daughter’s demeanor, I mean everything about her the whole ‘Mommy I need help.’ you know that’s just what she does,” Nickie Hackler said. “I don’t know how they did it, but they did.”