Creative Apple. Last time on Pretenden Radio, Anita Barney told us how she went from being the wife of a Wendy's CEO to becoming broke and struggling to pay her light bill.

She remembers her late husband's advice.

When he was dying, he was giving me all these instructions and one of them was, did not let a man come in your life and

take all your money.

I said, well, I would never be that.

You know the story. Yeah.

Do not have a man come into your life and take all your money.

She fell victim to a swindler, Arch Schlister.

It started out with a small favor.

So he said, I need a car that will get me to Carmel, Indiana, establish a relationship with my daughter.

So I need about, could I borrow about 10,000?

Well, I was surprised, believe me that he even asked that he just met me and he's asking me for money and I was totally was surprised, but I didn't know what to say.

I just, I just hammered around and I just I said yes.

Then it led her to losing her entire fortune.

But instead of calling the cops or telling her family what was going on, she kept up the facade of being a millionaire.

I just needed my money back. I couldn't let my family know what had happened and that's what kept

me going. I kept thinking, he's got to end. He's saying it's going to end.

But it's never going to end. In fact, it's only going to get worse. Today, we're going to talk about why Anita turned to her friends and

scam them out of their life savings. So why would she do it? Why would she get her

friends wrapped up in this mess?

The answer? It's not easy to understand.

I'm Hobby or Leyva, and this is Pretend Radio.

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