Fake Doctor Runs Phony Medical Spa Scheme, Part 2
The Perfect Scam
AARP
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🗓️ 27 January 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In part 2, Jill Alper has already made a $10,000 investment in Dr. Dan's medical spa business when her friend Holly Saunders learns that he is a con man with a lengthy criminal record. Determined to stop him from targeting his next victim, the friends team up with the FBI to lay a trap for Dr. Dan, culminating with a dramatic sting operation at a restaurant.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on the perfect scam. |
| 0:03.0 | I decided that I was going to go to the FBI. |
| 0:07.0 | And so at this point, Dr. Dan had no clue that we had discovered who he really and truly is or was. |
| 0:17.8 | It's nerve-racking. I mean, when you have to lie to a con artist for three weeks to make sure he is going to arrive here and everybody's here working undercover it, yeah, your heart speeding fast, you feel like this is it. |
| 0:38.0 | If he gets, if he, you know, if he leaves or doesn't show up, |
| 0:41.8 | then all this is a waste. |
| 0:43.4 | It had to work. |
| 0:44.3 | When we left friends Jill Alpert and Holly Saunders in part one. They had just discovered that the charming man they'd gone into business with, |
| 0:57.6 | the man who said he sold horses, was a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon who spoke several languages, was an accomplished piano player, a fine art buyer. |
| 1:07.0 | While he also had a deep dark past as a criminal. |
| 1:11.0 | Holly had just Google Dr. Dan McCann, who was selling franchise opportunities |
| 1:16.0 | in the fat freezing business and found decades worth of news stories about financial |
| 1:20.4 | fraud he'd committed, most written by Stephanie Berry, a reporter in Massachusetts. |
| 1:26.6 | Holly emailed this new research to Jill, but it was too late. |
| 1:30.8 | She had just sent $10,000 to Dr. Dan thinking she was buying one of his fat-freezing machines. |
| 1:38.0 | And she sent me that while I was at a friend's house and I when I saw the article I mean just I read it like this has been going on since the 1980s I mean he's taking money from lawyers he was like a stole money from an escrow |
| 1:56.4 | account trying to do land deals he lived in a hotel in New York never paid a bill |
| 2:01.6 | you know stole from this woman. I mean, it was one thing after another. |
| 2:06.3 | I got so sick. I just, I couldn't believe that I had just |
| 2:14.0 | just wired the guy the money I just it just I was devastated. So I ended up going home |
| 2:22.0 | I just I was just crying. I'm like how can this happen to me? I mean smart business woman street smart I just I shut down and I did not I wasn't even answered my phone and Holly kept |
| 2:36.7 | calling me and I just I was so embarrassed. The good news is that Holly found those |
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