Archive Episode: Rookie FBI Agent Turns Tables on International Scammers, Part 2
The Perfect Scam
AARP
4.5 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In part 2 of this 2021 episode, Rookie FBI agent Mike meets 80-year-old Alan, who has sent $600,000 to “friends” he met online. Typically, international scammers are notoriously hard to prosecute. After hearing that Alan visited the scammers in the Middle East and Africa, though, Mike senses a unique opportunity to lure the con artists to the United States. The pair devise a scheme so that the swindlers can be arrested and convicted of their crimes.
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| 0:00.0 | Last week on The Perfect Scam. |
| 0:03.0 | Yes, so they meet in Dubai. |
| 0:06.0 | It's Eric and Precious. |
| 0:08.0 | It's an African man and a Caucasian |
| 0:13.0 | and they have Alan pay for hotel, they have Alan pay for the meals, |
| 0:18.0 | everything. |
| 0:19.0 | In fact, I think there's this picture of Alan with |
| 0:22.0 | Eric Precious and like like it looks like a |
| 0:24.8 | Chili's or something you know the Dubai airport. I'm almost kind of amazed that they |
| 0:29.0 | were brazen enough to pose for a Welcome back to the perfect scam. I'm your host Bob Sullivan. When we left our |
| 0:48.4 | story an FBI agent named Mike was working with a victim named Alan who had sent $600,000 to criminals |
| 0:56.4 | overseas thinking he was helping new friends obtain an inheritance. |
| 1:02.1 | In fact, Alan had traveled to meet these friends, traveled all the way to |
| 1:06.1 | Dubai and then to Ghana. And, crucially, Alan had taken a photograph of himself with these friends. |
| 1:14.0 | So FBI Agent Mike has a way to identify the criminals. |
| 1:18.0 | Little good that does, however, since they are overseas, far away from FBI jurisdiction. |
| 1:24.0 | So, with Allen's help, Mike hatches a plan to lure these criminals to the U.S. |
| 1:29.6 | where they can be arrested by federal authorities. |
| 1:32.2 | In today's conclusion of this two-part |
| 1:35.1 | episode Mike finds himself waiting at Dulles Airport outside Washington, D.C. hoping |
| 1:40.8 | these criminals take the bait. |
| 1:43.0 | This story is pulled from our archives as we prepare more perfect scam episodes for you. |
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