This week on the perfect scam.

He said, I'm going to the airport to meet a man who's going to give me a multi-million dollar prize.

We actually had a confrontation right at the money gram counter.

I begged the people there at the counter not to send money for him and I told him that my father was sending money to crooks.

Welcome back to the perfect scam. I'm your host Bob Sullivan. We've brought you a lot of

stories through the years about people who think they've won a lottery or fallen in

love and send money overseas believing that a small payment will let them

bring home their prize or their loved one. And these stories are often also about the

families who try to intervene. But today we bring you the story of a son's

years-long struggle to get his father to stop sending money to criminals in Jamaica.

But when all the money dries up, the criminals don't give up.

And this story takes a really unexpected turn.

Now the family has to worry.

Why is our dad so dead set on helping these criminals?

Here's our story.

Lottery victim turns Money Meel.

One day when I was speaking with my mother in the living room and my dad came downstairs, dressed a little better than usual for a weekday.

You know, I asked him, I said, well, hey, pop, you know,

what's with what's with the sweater and slacks?

You know, what's the occasion?

And I thought maybe he was going to meet the guys from church for coffee or or maybe he was going to an increasing number of, you know, another yet another memorial service, you know, for an older acquaintance. But he said, no, he said, I'm going to the airport to meet a man who's going to give me a multi-million dollar prize. That's Brad Simpson talking about his dad,

Paul Simpson and the day both their lives, really their entire family, changed forever. But before we go forward, let's go back a little.

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