This week on AARP's The Perfect Scamp.

The way I found out about the girl initially was he called and said,

hey, what do you know about steam cards? And what do you know about steam cards and what do you know about Google Play cards and it the

red flags just went up immediately.

Welcome back to AARP's The Perfect Scam. I'm your host Michelle Kaczynski and last

week we led you through the story of Annie from the Midwest who after 35 years of marriage found herself suddenly

alone at home every day her husband now in a nursing home with dementia and he

started looking for some basic companionship and conversation and was surprised to meet

someone online on the site plenty of fish, someone who appear to be a kind kind thoughtful architect based in California.

Very smooth, very patient, you know, just little pieces at a time.

A man she really felt she was getting to know over a year's time. But

sure enough, since this is the perfect scam, things started to get strange. When he

asked Annie to accept donations for an orphanage,

he said he and his late wife had started in Africa and he had an elaborate

excuse every time they were supposed to meet in real life.

This guy is Academy Award material.

You really need to listen to that last episode and hear Annie tell this in her own words. But where we left off, this supposed

architect man of her dreams was using her bank account to take supposed donations, which she was then converting into Bitcoin and sending to his

account while he was supposedly traveling. Annie's adult kids got wind of all

this had had enough and had just presented Annie with a tough ultimatum.

Give up entirely this man that she by then loved and saw a future with or lose all contact with her beloved children and grandchildren.

For Annie though it was a no-brainer.

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