Fake Doctor Runs Phony Medical Spa Scheme, Part 1
The Perfect Scam
AARP
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🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Longtime friends Jill Alper and Holly Saunders are dazzled when they meet Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Dan, a man of many talents and interests. When Dr. Dan invites them to invest in his medical spa business, Jill dives in with a $10,000 offering. Holly, though, is beginning to think Dr. Dan may not be the man he claims. Will this scammer be any match for these friends when they team up with the FBI?
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| 0:00.0 | This week on The Perfect Scamp. |
| 0:03.0 | They said, do you have a picture of this guy? |
| 0:05.0 | And so I've pulled up this picture of Dr. Dan on my phone |
| 0:10.0 | and he's sitting there in a white coat but he's got Dr Dan embroidered on his coat |
| 0:18.1 | but it's like the embroidery you would use on a towel or something. |
| 0:23.6 | And Joe, being a surgeon, he looked at it |
| 0:26.8 | and he said, uh, no, nobody does that. |
| 0:31.1 | That is absolutely a no know don't do anything with him. |
| 0:39.2 | Welcome back to the perfect scam I'm your host Bob Sullivan. |
| 0:44.0 | Jill Alper and Holly Saunders had a great friendship. |
| 0:48.0 | They were neighbors in South Carolina who bonded because they were both raising twins. So when the kids got older and |
| 0:55.3 | opportunity presented itself, it seemed only natural for them to go into business |
| 1:00.2 | together. But when they did, they never imagined they'd end up on the phone with a reporter from Western Massachusetts who'd been tracking the exploits of a serial con artist for more than two decades. |
| 1:14.0 | And together, these three women decided it was high time to |
| 1:18.0 | freeze this con man out of the crime business. |
| 1:22.0 | Today we begin a two-part series on a medical spa |
| 1:25.1 | franchise opportunity that went south, but our story actually begins up north. |
| 1:31.2 | My name is Stephanie Barry. begins up north. |
| 1:39.0 | My name is Stephanie Barry and I'm an investigative reporter in Springfield, Massachusetts. I work for the Republican and Mass Live.com. |
| 1:43.0 | Is it fair to call you Western Massachusetts |
| 1:45.6 | Yes newspaper? |
| 1:46.5 | Okay. |
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