in 2015, william and lynda webster were targeted by a man who peddled a lottery scam over phone calls and emails. over multiple phone calls, keniel aeon thomas of jamaica told the websters he'd set their house ablaze or have a sniper shoot them in the back of the head if they didn't pay him thousands of dollars, according to prosecutors' filings. the websters used their knowledge of the fbi to help send the scammer to prison for nearly six years in early 2019.