This article provides readers with a real life example of an elderly couple becoming victims of international sweepstakes scam. Both retired and highly educated educators lost tens of thousands of dollars, which altered their children that a intervention was needed. To no unveil their adult children were unable to convince their parents that they were being defrauded by this sweepstakes provider. Out of further concern their children sought the help of Special Agent Joan Fleming of the FBI and David Evers, an investigator from the North Carolina attorney general's telemarketing fraud unit back in December 2005. They showed the couples a video were a con man detailed how he implements his scheme against the elderly. Though Mrs. Parker was
