This week on the perfect scan.

So they drive up to your house.

They drive up to the house, three men.

They come in my house.

They open the box on the floor of my living room and count. They were polite. They didn't say hardly anything. They left with my money and I remember thinking they're walking out of my house with half of my life savings.

Welcome back to the perfect scam.

I'm your host Bob Sullivan. There's a dangerous new

trend in scams, one we want to tell you about right away. We tend to think of

online crime as virtual thefts in which the criminal and the victims are miles away, maybe continents away.

But increasingly, in-person, real-life meetings have become a part of online crime.

Money mules are being sent into homes and driveways to pick up payments, and that adds a very, very

dangerous element to these crimes.

Tragically, one unwitting money mule was shot and killed recently

by someone who was the target of a grandparents' can. Today's story involves a situation like that.

Criminals arrived at our victims home twice,

in this case to pick up a pizza box-sized cashet of gold bars. But in an amazing twist, well, this story has at least a partly

happy ending that's almost hard to believe. But it comes as a very serious cautionary tale.

We hope you'll tell your loved ones about it.

Meet Lori English, who was happily enjoying her hobbies during early retirement when our story starts.

Hobbies like, singing, and playing the guitar.

I'm going back someday.

Come one measure blue by you.

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