Trusted Caregiver Steals Oklahoma Woman's Savings

The Perfect Scam

AARP

True Crime, Aarp, Fraud, Society & Culture, Scam, Crime, Bobsullivan

4.5 • 980 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Alice hires a local handyman, Joey, as a live-in caregiver after her shoulder surgery. She recovers, but soon COVID-19 hits, and Joey, who is down on his luck, stays on to help around the house. Alice has known Joey for years and trusts him completely. But one morning when she opens her monthly bank statement, everything about her relationship with Joey changes.

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0:00.0	This week on The Perfect Scam.
0:04.0	I put that money in the bank, and I never even give it a thought, you know, because the only ways get the money out of the bank was with my card or a check.
0:13.8	When I got my February statement the first of March, I thought, shit.
0:18.2	I don't got any money in the bank.
0:23.6	No. I thought, shh-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h-h... Welcome back to the perfect scam.
0:27.3	I'm your host, Bob Sullivan.
0:29.9	More of us are living alone these days, many, many more.
0:33.8	The U.S. census says nearly one third of households include just one adult.
0:39.2	In 1940, it was fewer than one in ten.
0:42.7	This is true later in life, too.
0:44.7	Far more older Americans are living alone than in the past.
0:48.6	The independence can be great, but there are additional concerns to think about.
0:53.9	Everybody needs help sometime,
0:55.7	and today's story starts out innocently enough
0:57.9	with a woman hiring a neighbor she'd known for years
1:00.8	when she needs some help while recovering from surgery,
1:03.9	and things go well for a while,
1:06.2	but then something about him changes.
1:09.9	Meet Alice Dragou, who decided to make a big move to Oklahoma from Colorado just a couple of years ago.
1:17.3	So what made you want to go back to Oklahoma?
1:19.6	Well, I had some good friends down here, and they spotted this house,
1:22.8	and I knew I had to get away from the high altitude because of my health.
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