Older, Lonely And Scammed

The Dr. Phil Podcast

Dr. Phil McGraw

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Our society faces a profound crisis, with 28% of the population now living alone, up from just 9% in the 1950s, making millions vulnerable to online fraud. Dr. Phil, joined by Chris Harrison, former host of "The Bachelor," who brings nearly two decades of insight into love's complexities, discuss the societal shifts that have increased loneliness, making older adults prime targets for scams. Dr. Phil exposes a shocking tool of online scammers—a scammer MANUAL containing 100 “foolproof” pick-up lines designed to exploit the lonely and isolated, out of millions of dollars, provided by Social Catfish, a company that verifies online identities using reverse search technology. Chris sits down with 67-year-old widow Lucy, who fell prey to a textbook romance scam, using every trick from this disturbing manual. PLUS, an 81-year-old woman who was scammed not once, but twice, within three months.
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0:00.0	It's America's loneliness epidemic.
0:03.0	She's been embroiled in a textbook romance scam.
0:07.0	Every time I said money, it's never enough.
0:09.0	I needed to help me.
0:10.0	That is just 500. Why can't you help me?
0:13.0	I want to introduce you to the newest member of our Merritt Street Media family.
0:17.0	He was the host of The Bachelor, Chris Harrison. You've been immersed in the good,
0:23.6	bad, and ugly of love.
0:25.6	There was a lot of ugly, yeah.
0:27.6	I thought there was no better place than to have you sit down with Lucy and really get her story.
0:34.6	She was taken advantage of by these people and it was absolutely terrible.
0:38.3	So you're feeling sick?
0:40.3	So very sick, baby. I need some medication. I feel sick.
0:43.3	This is him in jail. Does that look like a jail picture to you? What's your greatest fear?
0:49.3	My greatest fear was to get blackmailed. His greatest fear should be, you be in here.
0:54.5	You're surrounded by people who do care about you
0:57.5	and who will burn this son of a bitch to the ground.
1:14.6	You have a sun burn, or are you always this hot? If the world were made out of chicken, you would be a hot wing.
1:21.6	You must be made out of cheese because you're looking Gouda.
1:30.4	No, these are not bad jokes.
1:32.4	Well, actually they are, but these are also pickup lines
1:37.6	from a Nigerian scam manual with 100 suggested pickup lines that are guaranteed to work every time to get an identified
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