This week on The Perfect Scam.

She changed her voice at any given time.

She was able to pretend to be somebody from various countries to male female. to

male female, female.

She could change and pretend to be a victim versus an employee of a credit card

company.

So it was really, really impressive or the difference in

tone or inflection that she would use really to change her voice. It was very impressive. Welcome back to the perfect scam.

I'm your host Bob Sullivan.

Imagine a criminal so skilled at doing impressions,

she can pretend to be two parties on a three-way phone call.

That's how Lisa Reed was able to rampage her way through victim's credit card accounts for nearly two years.

Living a life of luxury, police once seized a closet full of jewelry, purses, and $5,000 shoes while Lisa Reed was still on the run.

Today's story offers a rare chance to hear a criminal inaction.

You'll listen to recordings of Lisa Reed manipulating her voice and her victims as she tries to steal almost 5 million

dollars worth of merchandise. How do police eventually track down the

credit card con queen? Well this story is amazing so we've plucked it from the

archives for you this week. We'll be back soon with more all new episodes of The Perfect

scam. Almost 20 years ago I wrote a book called Your Evil Twin behind the

identity theft epidemic. At the time many consumers hadn't even heard of identity theft. Criminal imposters were just getting started.

Today it feels like ID theft is everywhere hitting millions of consumers every year,

roughly one in 20 US consumers annually

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