As they continue to be involved their disgusting scamming, they will most likely vary their fantasy stories a bit but basically always follow the same pattern.

They have been doing so for years.

Believe me, they cannot scare me! I have been in prison for political reasons in a former communist country where I had been almost been beaten up to death.
If you survive things like that, you can bear a lot of things much less worse than that what happened in the past!