00:00Romance scams.
00:01These are truly the most devastating scams out there.
00:06It is so easy for people to pretend to be anyone else.
00:10One in seven adults say that they've lost money to one of these scams.
00:16So I started kicking around this idea.
00:18What if I try to be romance scammed?
00:22Have you ever been undercover before?
00:23Yeah, many times.
00:25Usually with my actual face.
00:27Oh my God.
00:28Let's do this.
00:31A lot of these scammers actually have very similar backstories.
00:36They're divorced or a military officer or a businessman.
00:41Jackpot.
00:42He said that he's a general in Syria.
00:46He's madly in love with me.
00:48This is crazy.
00:51He sends me a link that teaches me how to use a Bitcoin ATM.
00:55Holding my hand while stealing my money.
00:58I'm a reformed ethical hacker.
01:01If you're looking for scammers, the best person that's going to help find them is me.
01:07I want to look him in the eye and explain the damage he's doing.
01:14People have committed suicide because of this.
01:17They need it.
01:17More, more, more, more, more, more.
01:19You just keep falling and falling and falling.
01:21I'm playing this.
01:24I got a ping.
01:25He's agreed to meet with us.
01:27This is the wildest journalistic experiment of my life.
01:30That house.
01:31Oh my God.
01:33No way.
01:33No way.
01:34No way.
01:50No way.
01:52¡Gracias!
