This week on the perfect scam.

When you first start dating, I laugh and I think if the Yahoo chat used to go ding, ding, ding,

you know, I could be being a dead sleep in my bedroom on the other side of the house and I would hear that and I would get up and I

would race to the computer.

I just felt young again.

I felt loved, I felt appreciated.

I trusted him.

I had no reason not to trust at that point.

Welcome back to AARP's The Perfect Scam. I'm your host Michelle Kosinski.

This week we're going deep inside the very dark world of romance

scams. Each one is unique, each one is painful, but we're going to look at a few

that have an unexpected twist or several.

You will meet two extremely smart women who manage to turn the tables on their scammers and the endings are not at all what I

anticipated. So first let's welcome Debbie Montgomery Johnson. Sit back,

get ready, she has quite a story to tell. I went into the Air Force as an

intelligence officer and I did that for eight years. That's right to say that Debbie, a

business owner and mother of four adult children down in Florida is smart

Would be an understatement. She had a career in military intelligence the kind of person you don't want to be hiding stuff from.

I was able to work in D.C. at the Pentagon and at the D.I. Defense Intelligence Agency.

I was down in the Navy Yard for a while.

And then I went overseas to Germany. I was down in the Navy Yard for a while.

And then I went overseas to Germany for a few years,

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