Virtual Romeo Doesn’t Have a Heart of Gold, Part 1

The Perfect Scam

AARP

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

4.5 • 980 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

When 70-year-old widow Isabella finally tries online dating, she’s quickly swept off her feet by a handsome man named Michael who’s been hired by General Petraeus for an important mission in Afghanistan. When his luggage is lost, including a vital piece of equipment, Isabella steps in to help, lending Michael more than $17,000 to replace it. Thanks to her, the mission is a great success and there is a reward — of gold bars. Though Isabella pays more than $100,000 to a company, neither Michael nor the gold ever arrives. Over the course of another year of broken promises, in debt and heartbroken, Isabella realizes that this all may be part of an elaborate scam.

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0:00.0	This week on The Perfect Scam.
0:02.0	I want to send the gift to you.
0:04.0	And I said, okay, so what was it?
0:08.0	It was a palette of gold.
0:10.0	And I said, I don't want it.
0:12.0	And he said, no't want it and he said no no no you send it we'll get you'll get the gold
0:17.0	we'll sell it but I have to get it out of Afghanistan immediately because I don't want anything to happen to it.
0:24.8	I kept hounding Michael.
0:27.5	I said I need my money.
0:28.6	I mean I was in debt to my eyes.
0:31.8	Welcome back to our new season of the perfect scam. I'm your host Bob Sullivan. We have an amazing set of true crime
0:39.2	stories planned for you this season. Thanks so much for being us. And we begin with the tale that hits some
0:45.3	familiar notes at the beginning, but it has quite the surprise ending. Well, I
0:51.3	think you'll be really happy when you hear how this story ends.
0:55.0	Isabella grew up in New York City, in Queens, and lived a fun fun single life well into her 40s working in the
1:05.8	airline industry when she met her husband to be George at work. I worked out of
1:11.6	JFK at that time and I was a supervisor in the building that they were refurbishing and he happened to be the foreman for the electricians there and I was working on the project and that's how we met.
1:26.3	The year was 1989.
1:28.8	It doesn't take long for George to be Smitten with Isabella. That's not her real name by the way. We're
1:34.1	protecting her identity. And do you remember anything about your first real date?
1:41.6	My first real date?
1:44.2	He told me he was going to marry me in my first.
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