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The Perfect Scam

Love Online Leads to International Lockup

The Perfect Scam

AARP

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Bryon, a retired pastor, thought he'd met his dream girl online. For five years he conversed over the internet with Joy, who claimed to live in London. So when Joy asked Bryon to transport real estate papers, he had no idea he was being used in an elaborate plot to smuggle drugs. Bryon is one of hundreds of Americans over the age of 60 who were conned into unwittingly serving as drug mules in what the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging calls one of the worst scams it has uncovered.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Coming up this week on AARP the perfect scam.

0:03.4

It's a group of people they're easily prey upon.

0:05.8

It's a terrible crime.

0:07.8

These individuals, these seniors have worked their life to have the golden ears.

0:13.0

There's people abroad, you know, targeting our seniors every day,

0:17.0

and there's people being caught every day. For AARP, AARP, the Perfect Scam Podcast. I'm your host Will Johnson and I am here once again with my co-host,

0:29.6

the AARP's Fraud Watch Network Ambassador Frank Abagnale.

0:33.0

Frank, we meet again.

0:34.2

Yes, we are.

0:35.2

Glad to be back.

0:36.2

Thanks for being here.

0:37.2

You know, we haven't read just a good old-fashioned scam email on the show, and I thought

0:41.2

I could read a little bit of one and just get your feedback.

0:44.0

I almost want you to hit a buzzer every time you hear something, but we don't have a buzzer, so we'll just talk about it.

0:49.5

But this is one my sister got and she sent it to me.

0:53.2

Good evening to you. My name is Maureen Jeffson from London, England.

0:56.6

I'm going to pause. So first of all, the names always are, are, seem to be made up. So this is more in Jefferson. I school and work as a fashion

1:06.6

designer for part-time job after my school. I'm the only child of my parents.

1:10.9

My father died on a fatal auto accident on the way to see my

1:14.2

sick mother at the hospital. She also died when she heard about the death of my

1:17.4

father in the same day at the hospital. Terrible story. Before the death of my

1:21.4

father he had willed part of his real estate business,

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