Chapter 22. The CIA medical scam
Who could possibly fall for a claim that the CIA has spy satellites that can scan your body—while you sleep—for medical problems undetectable by conventional means, and that once identified, these problems can be cured by secret medicines—also while you sleep—that will keep you in robust health? No one, you say? Wrong. For six years, this story was the one used by Stacey Finley to scam people throughout Louisiana, Texas, and Mississippi out of close to a million dollars.
We often hear only what we want to hear. A quick and easy route to good health is enticing. The federal prosecutors of Stacey Finley described her victims as “solid, middle-class, educated citizens.”[*] These same people trusted someone because ...
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