Coming up on this episode of AARP's perfect scam.

This guy looks very nice and whatever he told me I feel very bad for him and he is a businessman and okay.

It's an all- common scenario in this age of online love and dating. What seems like the perfect match at first turns out to be anything about that.

But we're not just talking about someone who doesn't live up to

expectations. These are con artists who know every trick in the book when it comes to

attracting attention, making a connection, and eventually walking away with the

victim's money.

And you might be surprised to learn how easy it is to fall into the trap.

For the AARP's perfect scam, I'm your host Will Johnson,

and I'd like to introduce once again my co-host and AARP's Fraud Watch network ambassador Frank Abagnale.

Frank welcome back.

Thank you, glad to be here.

So here we are again and this week we are talking about dating scams, romance scams and big business, right?

Absolutely.

This is one that makes sense in terms of being

able to get to somebody through their heart.

It seems like a low-hanging fruit almost for a scam

artist. It's true and it also it's amazing to me how much money some people have

given to these scam artists even though their family members are telling them it's a scam and trying

to tell them not to be involved in the relationship, they just continue to send money over and

over again.

It's easy to almost feel like these people are so gullible, but you have to put yourselves in their shoes to some extent as well.

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