This week on the perfect scam.

He would say, you don't understand, you don't understand, I'm in so much trouble, you

don't know what I've done.

The fear was so tremendous.

I don't, it was a combination of fear of dying and then fear of going to jail and fear of what he's done.

Welcome back to the perfect scam.

I'm your host Bob Sullivan.

When we left brothers, Matthew and Justin West,

and their mom Jan, they had just discovered that Matthew's bank account is nearly

empty.

And Matthew, suffering terribly with a rare and deadly brain cancer that has already made him paranoid, is convinced the police are coming to get him.

You can hear all the details in Part 1 if you haven't listened to that yet.

As we pick up the story now, here's Justin in North Carolina, working with his mom in California,

trying to figure out what's going on.

I was coming out to California that Sunday, so I asked her just to pull all the documents that she could,

and when I got to the house on Sunday, I started going through, I looked at his chase statements and I talked to him about it and I said, you know, Matt, I need to help you figure out what's going on here.

Matt, Justin's little brother is a lovable, creative man. here. Matt was diagnosed with glaublastoma and given perhaps eight months to live.

Justin and Jan searched the world for new treatments and Matt has so far beaten the odds.

But in the fall of 2021 the disease takes a turn for the worse

and Matt already struggling with deadly pain and brain fog becomes

partially paralyzed.

Desperate, he goes looking online for anything that might ease the pain.

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