Archive Episode: Rookie FBI Agent Turns Tables on International Scammers, Part 1
The Perfect Scam
AARP
4.5 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In this 2021 episode, after 80-year-old Alan returns from a trip to the Middle East and Africa, where he visited new “friends” he made online, his wife grows suspicious that he’s involved in a scam and contacts the FBI. That’s when rookie FBI agent Mike gets involved. Over the next nine months, Alan becomes Mike’s informant as they work to prosecute scammers who aren’t even on American soil.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on the perfect scam. |
| 0:02.0 | They would just be relentless. They would just keep on hounding and for, |
| 0:05.3 | hey, you need to send this money, you know, and they would sometimes impose a sense of urgency. |
| 0:11.9 | Like, hey, the chemicals are going to expire soon. You need to pay this now. |
| 0:14.7 | There's only a week left. It's going to expire, you know? If they expire, then that's it. There's no hope for Daniel. |
| 0:27.5 | Welcome back to the perfect scam. I'm your host Bob Sullivan. |
| 0:37.0 | Alan's wife is surprised when she finds out her husband has been to Dubai and then to Ghana to meet with some new friends. And she's even more surprised when she finds out her husband has sent about $600,000 to these friends. She tells someone at church |
| 0:46.7 | what's going on and she's connected with a young FBI agent named Mike who's |
| 0:51.0 | willing to meet with Alan and ask some questions about all this. |
| 0:55.0 | When Mike finds out that Alan has met these friends in person, that gives Mike an idea. |
| 1:02.0 | Is there a way he can lure Alan's friends to come meet him in the United States? |
| 1:08.0 | Today's story is plucked from our archives as we work on new episodes of The Perfect Scamp. |
| 1:14.5 | I think you'll be delighted to hear about the trap Mike sets for these friends. |
| 1:20.6 | So here's our story. |
| 1:22.1 | Rookie FBI agent turns tables on international scammers. |
| 1:27.0 | Today, a couple of scammers get a taste of their own medicine. |
| 1:32.0 | You hear these stories all the time and it's so... a taste of their own medicine. |
| 1:32.6 | You hear these stories all the time and it's so frustrating. |
| 1:36.6 | A scammer from far away steals thousands, even hundreds of thousands of dollars from |
| 1:41.7 | a victim and gets away with it because there's nothing |
| 1:44.8 | anyone can do. The criminals are halfway around the world beyond the reach of law enforcement. |
| 1:51.0 | Well today's story starts like that. Our victim sends hundreds of thousands of dollars |
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