Archive Episode: Oil Tycoon Con Artist Steals More Than Hearts, Part 1
The Perfect Scam
AARP
4.5 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In this 2021 episode, recent graduate Whitney Kirkpatrick is starting her career as a nurse when she meets Gregory Thomas, young and driven, and already the CEO of an oil company. His Southern charm, ambition and lavish lifestyle win over Whitney, her friends and her family. Then strange things begin to happen: large withdrawals from her bank account, calls from creditors late at night and pieces of Gregory’s story not adding up.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on the perfect scam. |
| 0:03.0 | He was an oil and gas man, the cowboy hats, the boots, he boasted about having so much money |
| 0:09.7 | living this lavish lifestyle. At night, I would get these notifications on my phone. |
| 0:15.7 | $500 has just been withdrawn from your bank account. |
| 0:18.6 | When he snapped and snatched the picture out of my hand, The southern draw went away. It was shocking. |
| 0:30.2 | Welcome back to the perfect scam. I'm your host Bob Sullivan. |
| 0:34.0 | Whitney Kropatrick is a young recent nursing school graduate in Dallas who sets up an online |
| 0:40.1 | dating profile on a whim and gets swept off her feet by a cowboy hat-wearing man named |
| 0:47.1 | Greg. |
| 0:48.1 | He has a Texas sized personality and it seems a bank account to boost. |
| 0:54.0 | At just 25 he's an oil tycoon. |
| 0:56.0 | He runs his own company. |
| 0:58.0 | He's running for political office. |
| 1:00.0 | He takes her to New York City for New Year's Eve. |
| 1:03.0 | Even Whitney's parents like Greg, |
| 1:05.1 | his ambition is so strong he throws himself a birthday party |
| 1:09.6 | that's a mock presidential inauguration. But even as romance fills the air mock her accounts. And one day, while Whitney is in the shower, there's a loud bang at the door. |
| 1:25.7 | It seems someone is looking for Greg. This is part one of a two-part episode about a man with a very |
| 1:32.4 | tall tale and a very dark past. |
| 1:35.2 | It's one of our favorite stories so we've plucked it from the archives as we work on future |
| 1:39.6 | episodes of The Perfect Scam. |
| 1:48.0 | Hearing about an old flame can be a strange feeling. Maybe it's charming. You learn that the first girl you ever kissed on the lips |
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