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So this is a husband.

Usually it's a widow, but ready?

Help, help, help.

And sound the alarm.

Married but amicably separated, both 72 years old, both have separate and mutual bank accounts and a healthy stock portfolio.

Wow.

So Betty wrote to Susie, while separated, my husband opened a few dating sites and the scammers plucked him immediately.

He says he met someone a few months ago and was set to go meet her on a date 100 miles away.

He showed up, but she didn't, saying she had a family emergency and wondered if he could send her some money to help her daughter get out of the hospital.

That's where everything started to get worse.

He said he could certainly help her.

What does she need?

She says if he could just send a couple of gift cards, that would be helpful.

Just scratch off the numbers on the back and send me a picture of it, and I can cash it from there."

He sent her a $500 Apple gift card.

So it goes.

You can imagine that wasn't the end of it.

She managed to talk him into sending more and more with the promise of meeting up.

So he kept in touch.

All in Texas, never in person, never a phone call.