The state-run National News Agency reported on Wednesday that four armed men abducted a Lebanese man in the eastern Bekaa Valley.
However, the kidnapping was thwarted after the car rental company stopped the vehicle's engine through the GPS tracker.
The agency added that masked men were driving a black BMW when they stopped a Lebanese national identified as Qassem Mohammed Mahdi on the road of New Riyaq and forced him out of his rented Range Rover.
Two of the armed men put Mahdi in their BMW, while the two others took his Range Rover and fled the scene, according to the agency.
Eyewitnesses called the security forces, while his family informed the car rental company, which in turn stopped the Ranger Rover's engine via GPS.
The abductors were then obliged to release Mahdi and leave his car near the town of Nabi Sheet.