This week on The Perfect Scam.

We're sitting in a dark parking lot of a grocery store

and I'm saying, I can't believe this is how it's going to happen. I saw the fellow approach.

We were parked out by ourselves and he approached us very slontly and came up to my side and I rolled down and I said she's the one.

Welcome back to the perfect scam. I'm your host Bob Sullivan.

Last week we met Tom and Diane Clemens, two retired professors,

who found a way to enjoy the imposed isolation of the pandemic,

even though Diane had to be extra careful because of an earlier about with breast cancer.

Their only connection to the outside world,

to their daughter and grandson in San Diego, for example, was

the family computer. Then one day, a horrible screeching noise interrupts their day, and the computer tells Diane to call Microsoft for help.

When she calls the number on her screen, a man who says his name is Neil tells Diane that her

computer's been hacked.

Later, another man who says he is Marcus

tells Tom and Diane their bank accounts are hacked too,

this time by a bank insider,

and they have to work fast to get their money out without

raising the suspicion of local bank employees. At about the same time Diane

gets the awful news that her breast cancer has returned.

So they're fighting a war on two fronts.

We left Tom and Diane when they were sitting in a parking lot with a box full of cash destined for Marcus and Neil.

A cash handoff is the only way to avoid bank employee's suspicion, they're told.

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