This week on AARP the Perfect Scan.

For these groups to go after this generation,

this age group were the ones that trusted everybody.

They thought of the goodness of people.

My anger is that they're going after these folks.

We should be taking care of these people.

Welcome back to AARP The Perfect Scam. I'm your host Will Johnson. I'm here with my co-host as always the

AARP Fraud Watch Network Ambassador Frank Abagnale. Frank thanks for being here.

Thank you. And this week we have a heart-wrenching story we'll get into. But before we do that, I want to ask you briefly this idea that we've touched on where people who are falling into a scam sending money in it's

almost like an addiction it sounds like from some people almost like gambling or

other types of addictions where maybe it's some degree of excitement or

connection what have you. Yeah I think it can become that that you start to

believe in whatever it is that you're sending money in or you believe there's going

to be some return promised

you made by the people who are soliciting you or sometimes you just believe it's a

legitimate charity and you think this is a good charity I'd like to give money to, but it's just people

using that charity's name with a PO box. They're not the actual charity, even if it's using

a real charity's name. So there's many motivations to why people would send money and

sometimes they're looking something in return. Sometimes they think they're

doing good with it, but it turns out that they're being scammed.

Let's get into today's story.

We're going to hear from MS-MBC anchor Richard Louis and the story of his father.

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