This episode contains occasional course language and we've used some voice actors to bring

emails to life.

The last time my brother to bring emails to life.

The last time my brother saw Leslie Manukian,

she was getting on a plane.

He thought she was just taking a holiday

to see her family in the US. But just before Leslie

turned to go through the gate, she said those words. The snowball is about to hit you.

And Greg was so shell-shocked. We didn't really know what that meant.

No. Well, how it would manifest itself.

What snowball?

Within a couple of months, my parents had lost more than a million dollars,

their home and their retirement.

And Greg was heartbroken.

As paperwork surfaced from the failed Dragonfly Cafe,

Dad started to find some hectic stuff that didn't make sense.

Leslie Manukian had left behind a trail of clues about what she had done.

And the more my dad discovered, the more obsessed he got about investigating.

Dad even sort of turned himself

into a 60-something-year-old hacker,

and he eventually uncovered a web of deception

so strange that it's kind of funny.

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