Scam Declined: How Bank Employees Stopped a Scam
The Perfect Scam
AARP
4.5 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
A call from someone claiming to be from the Federal Trade Commission sends Linda on a quest to transfer $25,000, believing that she is assisting them in catching a criminal. The caller warns her not to tell anyone what she's up to, but perceptive bank employees at multiple branches suspect a scam and throw up roadblocks. Meanwhile, they alert Linda's children, who work quickly to get between their mother and the criminals.
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| 0:00.0 | This week on The Perfect Scam. |
| 0:03.9 | I got a call from Doty. |
| 0:06.3 | She said, have you talked to her seen mom this morning? |
| 0:09.9 | So I do track her on my phone, found out where she was. |
| 0:14.6 | She was in the parking lot there at the bank in Nixie. |
| 0:18.3 | So between the two of us, we were trying to figure out, okay, how do we intercept her? |
| 0:23.9 | Just in case there were to be a fail at one of the banks and she was able to get through |
| 0:29.9 | and do something. |
| 0:30.9 | So you're still concerned, we better get mom fast because something bad might happen |
| 0:34.6 | here. |
| 0:35.6 | Yes. |
| 0:36.6 | Welcome back. Because something bad might happen here. Yes. |
| 0:42.6 | Welcome back to the perfect scam. |
| 0:44.5 | I'm your host, Bob Sullivan. |
| 0:48.7 | When Dwight Samuel and his sister, Doty Thomas, |
| 0:50.8 | raced to their mom's home recently, |
| 0:52.9 | she was gone, |
| 0:56.3 | but they found a half-eaten bowl of oatmeal on the kitchen table. And that's just not like mom. The kids are very worried. But this story has an ending |
| 1:03.7 | that might really surprise you. We tell a lot of stories at the perfect scam that reveal how |
| 1:10.7 | much systems let people down and set them up to be victims of crimes. |
| 1:15.7 | You often hear me lament that big tech companies or financial institutions don't do more to stop crimes. |
| 1:22.2 | Well, today's story is different because we've got such a great example of how things can go right. When bank employees |
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