DEA Impostor Steals Montana Woman’s Life Savings

The Perfect Scam

AARP

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

4.5 • 980 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Retiree Susan moves from California to a beautiful Victorian home in Montana to be closer to her son and his growing family. One day, Susan notices some unusual charges from her Amazon account. She takes all the necessary steps to dispute and resolve the charges, but a few weeks later, she receives a call from “Amazon” informing her of additional fraudulent activity on her account. This call and the subsequent investigation by a man posing as a DEA agent, will put everything that Susan has, including that Victorian home, in jeopardy.

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0:00.0	This week on the perfect scan.
0:03.0	He said, so every few hours you have to text me where you are, what you're doing.
0:10.0	And sometimes I would forget two or three hours would go and I didn't and he'd send me a text, where are you?
0:16.4	He would text me and say, you've left town, where are you going?
0:20.8	What are you doing?
0:22.0	He was tracking me, I guess, with my cell phone.
0:25.0	Oh my God, that sounds so creepy.
0:27.0	I was so afraid.
0:29.0	Welcome back to the perfect scam. I'm your host Bob Sullivan.
0:37.0	Anyone who's ever spent even a little time in Montana. Heck I bet anyone who's even seen it on TV has fantasized about
0:46.4	packing up and buying a home in a perfect little mountain village there. I've spent a good amount of
0:51.9	time in Missoula, Montana, the first big city after you cross
0:56.0	the border from Idaho into big sky country, and I've certainly dreamed about it.
1:00.3	Well, today's guest lived out that dream a few years ago.
1:04.4	Susan Bivens moved from California to Anaconda about 90 minutes south and east of
1:10.7	Missoula and bought a big beautiful Victorian home there.
1:15.0	Even better, she moved to be near her son and his growing family.
1:19.0	She wanted them to be a bike ride away, not a plane ride away. But this dream turned into a nightmare one day
1:27.3	when Susan discovered fraudulent charges on her credit card end. Within a few weeks, she lost very nearly everything she had including
1:36.3	that Victorian home. Let's meet Susan. So I have spent a lot of time in Missoula actually I love Missoula. Oh yeah it's beautiful. Yeah I lived in Seattle for about 15 years and Missoula is like a perfect little days drive away from the Pacific Northwest.
1:52.8	So I guess I've only been by Anaconda on I-90, right?
1:57.9	Yeah, yeah, the turn off is, we're about five miles from the freeway there so you see the sign.
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