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Welcome. Welcome to The Knife. I'm Hannah Smith.

I'm Pasha Eaton.

Today I'm going to tell Pesha a story about an international con man, and then we will have recommendations.

Let's get into it.

So I first heard about this story through someone who emailed me and said that she had a story about a con man. I remember you telling me that someone had emailed. This was a while

ago. Yeah, yeah. And so as we do, I set up a preliminary call just to sort of hear more about the story. So I talked with her on the phone for a bit. She didn't end up doing an interview. So I'm just going to use a different name. We'll call her Sarah. But basically, she told me that she was working abroad in 2018. She was in Portugal in Porto. And she was working there.

She was kind of like going out and partying. There was an expat scene. How old was she?

20s or 30s. Okay. Had a job there, but would go out and was like part of the expat community.

Through just meeting people, she met this guy named Chad.

And they were friends for a year and a half. She didn't really know him that well. She said they

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