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EPISODE · Feb 14, 2020 · 44 MIN

Terror Over the Phone: Virtual Kidnappings, Part 2

from The Perfect Scam · host AARP

In part two of this special two-part episode on virtual kidnappings, we speak with the FBI to discuss how these scams started, why they're so successful and what is being done to stop them. We talk to the FBI Special agent who cracked a virtual kidnapping ring, and — with virtual kidnappings on the rise in the U.S. — you'll learn what to do if you receive a call. Then, for the first time ever, fraud expert and our host Frank Abagnale and his son, FBI Special Agent Scott Abagnale, sit down to do an interview together. They talk about growing up in the Abagnale household, Scott's road to becoming an FBI agent, and what it was like when Frank taught one of Scott's classes at the FBI Academy.

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