This week on The Perfect Scamp.

I was like, I feel uncomfortable with this.

I said, should I be seeing a red flag here?

And he said, what do you mean, a red flag?

And I said, I've heard of guys making women fall in love with them and then stealing all their money.

He immediately put a guilt trip on me and said, I don't need your money.

Welcome back to the perfect scam. I'm your host, Bob Sullivan.

There is nothing like Paris to stir your romantic side.

Anola Johnson enjoyed one of those postcard perfect trips to France and came home to a flirtation and a romance she just didn't expect.

She was swept off her feet and then swept into a nightmare that stole her heart and her money

for nearly two years. But as we'll see,

Paris really is part of her story. Criminals are experts at hacking our brains, talking right past

our rational selves, and directly to the emotional, impulsive part of ourselves. We have a brilliant

expert here today to discuss what's sometimes called a magdala hijacking.

But first, to get us all in the mood, let's go to Europe with Anula.

I got to take my sister along, which was really nice.

And one kind of funny thing was that she can be a curmudgeon sometimes.

Not really, but it was like dark. And I wanted to go out and see the Eiffel Tower. And I said, come on, let's go out and see the Eiffel Tower. I had another one of my workmates with me. And she said, oh, you guys go. I don't want to go. I said, are you kidding. You are in the city of lights. You are in Paris. If you don't come with me,

you know, you are grounded for the rest of the time here. So anyway, she came and she loved it.

She had a great time. But it's just, I don't know what it is about Paris. It's just magical.

And I went to Ina Garten's favorite grocery store, and I was just blown away.

I thought, we need grocery stores like that in the U.S.

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