This week on AARP the perfect scam. I think romance scams are definitely at the top of the list of the big bad scam. These scammers are not going for a thousand bucks here and there. They're going to the big guns. They're going for hundreds of thousands of dollars. We continue to get complaints from women, so certainly it's a top 10 scam.

Welcome back to AARP The Perfect Scam.

I'm Will Johnson here once again with AARP's Fraud Watch Network

Ambassador Frank Abbie Nell Frank.

Welcome back.

Thank you.

We're talking once again about romance scams and we will have part two of our story about a South African romance scam mastermind.

This story is about a man with a romance scam and possibly a ring of people scamming women,

but men get caught on this all the time too.

Yes and there's a lot to it then with these romance scams some people think well

it's all about me just sending somebody money and they rip me off for a bunch of money. But there's people

sending people gifts, electronics, there's people who end up doing things maybe on camera,

then later they're extorted for money saying if you don't give me the

money I'm going to show these pictures to your family members and your friends.

There's all other angles just not just I'm out to have somebody send me some money.

All right, well let's find out what happens with Sarah and hundreds of other women who were

caught up in an international romance scam.

Last week we introduced you to Sarah, the Southern Illinois mother of two who meets a man

named Elias online claiming to be from Illinois but working for the Army, a spy stationed

in the Black Hills of Africa.

He is none of the above.

His real name is Alimpsa Sunmola, and he's the ringleader of a South African group

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