This week on the perfect scam.

People have such a fundamental and deep need for social and intimate connection with others.

And so if you have people who are really desperate to make a connection. It really creates this

place where they're very vulnerable to a variety of scams because they're

tapping into these very deep insecurities, wants and needs that they have.

Welcome back to AARP's The Perfect Scamp.

I'm your host Michelle Kosinski.

This week, turning the tables on your scammer even when you

happen to be madly in love with them. Is it possible? Yes it is. Last week we told you about the super smart US intelligence analyst who gave

her a scammer virtually everything, a fortune, literally, but then turned it around. Have you heard her story? If not, you

need to because she is great. And now we bring you another very smart woman who

managed to pull herself out of the scam bubble before things

got really bad and then turn the tables had some questions for the man on the other end. We'll also get some deeper insights into why

and how these things evolve and in some ways it's not what you might think.

So to our scam this one brings us out to California.

I was like back into the normal, I'm fully there and I'm ready and I'm excited.

That's Patricia, a neuroscience nurse.

And as you might hear in her beautiful accent,

originally from Uganda, she also does a lot of charity work

for kids in her homeland.

She was finally in a good sunny place after going through a terrible

few years of her marriage falling apart and then a divorce. So three years after separating from her husband and some therapy she felt ready to get out and

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