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🗓️ 4 March 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Brad is in an uphill battle he never expected: He can’t convince his father that he’s the victim of a classic lottery scam. Even after talking to a veteran police detective and having a judge declare his son the conservator of his finances, Brad’s father just won’t stop sending money to the criminals. By the time his father has lost almost all of his life’s savings, Brad can’t believe it could get any worse. Then, he learns his father is not only a scam victim, but is also working for the scammers ― as a money mule.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on The Perfect Scam. |
| 0:02.6 | On the day of my mother's memorial service, my father came and asked me for money. |
| 0:15.0 | The day of my mother's memorial service. That's so painful. Wow. |
| 0:18.0 | He obviously was put up to it. |
| 0:21.0 | The criminals, no doubt. Of course I wasn't going to. He stormed away, slammed the door. |
| 0:30.5 | I just stood there and then I don't know maybe half hour 45 minutes later it was like |
| 0:38.4 | nothing happened with him it was like he hadn't said it. |
| 0:45.0 | Welcome back to the perfect scam. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm your host Bob Sullivan. |
| 0:48.0 | This is part two of our story, |
| 0:50.0 | Lottery Victim turns money meal. |
| 0:53.6 | When we left our story, Brad Simpson had just convinced the judge that his father Paul |
| 0:58.0 | should no longer have access to his own bank accounts. |
| 1:01.6 | Paul had sent about $150,000 to criminals thinking he was paying a fee to claim a big lottery |
| 1:07.2 | prize so that we're all afraid that the crime would continue. |
| 1:11.4 | Brad cut off the money and even cut off the phone line, but that wasn't the end of it. |
| 1:16.9 | It was really just the beginning. |
| 1:19.3 | First of all, got rid of his landline because there's no real way to block incoming calls. And then I confiscated |
| 1:26.9 | his cell phone and I got him a cell phone with parental controls, which is a bit ironic. |
| 1:33.0 | He could only accept calls from and text messages |
| 1:38.9 | from people in the address book in that phone. |
| 1:42.3 | But that doesn't work, not for long. |
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