It seems sooooo ridiculous! At first, I think it would be very silly for anyone (manager, employee, fiancee, etc.) to go along with such an absurd prank phone call. Wouldn't they know in an instant that it was BS? Yet, I'm reminded of the classical psychology Asch conformity experiments where an experimental subject was put into a room with other "subjects" (who were actually in on the experiment). All the "subjects" were then shown a few lines of differing length (with one being clearly longer than the others). Then all the people who were in on it were asked which line was longest, and they all declared one of the shorter lines to be longest. When the true subject was then asked which was longest, a surprising number concurred with the obviously incorrect majority! (32% according to wikipedia). I mean how much more clear cut can you get? Which line is longer? OR Would a police officer ask you to strip for some random employee's boyfriend? Perception is so fickle, it's scary. Also the whole authority telling you to do something ties into the Milgram experiment...

We are all so much more manipulatable than we think!