This week on The Perfect Scam.

He doesn't normally take an investment so low as 50,000, but because I know these people, he's willing to make an exception for me.

I'm getting in with, you know, the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio and royals from around the world, so why wouldn't I jump on that?

Thank you. and royals from around the world, so why wouldn't I jump on that? Welcome back to The Perfect Scam.

I'm your host, Bob Sullivan.

It's dark.

You ride an elevator to the top of a skyscraper and emerge into a room with a beautiful

view of the city lights.

You're with some trusted friends, including your former teacher.

And a witty tech wizard who is about to invite you into a secret circle.

There's a demonstration of his new invention that begins with gigantic bug-shaped robots.

And there's an offer to be part of what the group thinks might just be the investment opportunity

of a lifetime. That's where Taylor finds herself as we begin today's story.

It was also like nighttime, eight or nine at night. He takes us into this office and he's got

these several, several. I don't remember the number, but several. Little robots, I don't know what else to call them. They were like robots, but in the shape

of different insects. So there was like a massive housefly. And when I say massive, I'm talking about

maybe, maybe like eight or nine inches long. And it's quite clearly a machine that has been made to look like this, like an insect,

because he's saying that this particular technology can go into places that humans can't

and, you know, gather information or, I don't know, be a bomb.

That's Taylor, not her real name, but we're concealing her identity.

And he is a man that Taylor calls Sil.

He was talking about it as if the military was going to be using it.

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