She believed she was an FBI 'asset.' The scam drained her life's savings
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Was this victim a training exercise for a scammer who wanted to be promoted to bigger fish, or what? That's far too many man-hours to invest in scamming one "retired therapist".
Though it sounds like a grueling test for the victim loving a good story, and lacking any real-world sense whatever of how law enforcement works.
For people who live on a tenth of what we do a day, the return on investment is probably massive, especially if you can work with multiple victims throughout the day. This kind of persistence is not even uncommon. In fact, I thought this article was going to be a rehash of this article from a while back by one of The Cut's Finance writers: https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-w...