This week on the perfect scam.

What did he tell you about himself?

He just said that he is partially retired.

He played semi-pro baseball and now he just does a bunch of stuff for the wounded warriors and fundraising for kids and just focuses on doing that kind of stuff.

So obviously it triggered me. I'm like, oh, I'm a vet. And then I'm like, oh, I end I have a make a wish kid. So then, I mean, it just opened dialogue. And it was like, he just, I don't know, it was weird because I, he hit me with the two things that matter most to me so it's it was just I don't know I was like oh like who else has the same interest in mine you know? Welcome back to the perfect scam. I'm your host Bob Sullivan.

The urge to give to help, it's a beautiful human quality when we admire and we encourage.

Sure, it's about money, but it's about so much more than that.

Generosity, that giving spirit often comes from the heart more than it comes from the head and that.

Well, criminals know just how to exploit that.

Today's story is a bold, cruel exploitation

of the urge to give by a serial exploiter.

But it's also a lesson in how you can nurture that charitable impulse and use it so both your head and your heart do the most good.

Lindsey Meisner is a veteran and a single mom living in Scottsdale, Arizona with a pretty complicated life.

Her young daughter suffers from cystic fibrosis, so hers is a life in and out of doctors offices of hospitals.

But this life of extreme challenge has also made her extremely generous.

So when a chance comes, help veterans, or to help sick kids, she often jumps at it.

And recently, the stars seem to align for her to contribute to all the things she cares so

deeply about in a very unlikely place.

Let's meet Lindsay.

So when did you start playing golf?

My grandpa was a huge golfer, so I mean,

I started when I was little.

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