This week on The Perfect Scam.

I had gone to her home and saw these stacks of magazines everywhere.

I was a little anxious about all of them because they were things that she didn't read or had

subscribed to like Allure or Body Beautiful or there were charges from five or six different companies. It got up to where the

charges started increasing. They were from $39 to $49, then it's65.80, up to $99, then $175, $199.

So they were just rude, you know, I'm sorry that we're not going to, your sister agreed to this, we have a contract.

She agreed to 10 years, this is a kicker, she agreed to 10 years of that magazine.

Welcome back to the Perfect Scamp. I'm your host Bob Sullivan.

Sometimes it's the smallest opening that lets criminals

steal the biggest amounts. Today's story involves a woman who just wanted to help

kids raising money for a school and signed up for a magazine subscription,

which led to years of harassment and the theft of much of her savings.

But it also led to this woman and her sister bringing down a 20-year conspiracy that

robbed more than 150,000 victims nationwide.

Wait until you hear about nationwide.

Wait until you hear about their 48 hour train ride across America. All so they could testify in federal court and help end this reign of terror that was all based on magazine subscriptions.

And listen up because this old-fashioned sounding scam is alive and well and still hitting people across the country. Now I want you to

meet Penny Mashburn and Nancy Stowe, sisters who have a beautiful relationship

that? Well it was a lifesaver in the end. You'll hear Nancy sometimes finishes

Penny sentences as sisters sometimes do, particularly when your sister has faced some

serious health problems.

Penny, was there anything about the relationship that you guys had when you were kids

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