Aging to Perfection

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Scamming the Scammer:Revenge was sweet until . . . it wasn’t</span>
Aging Angry Amanda Barusch Aging Angry Amanda Barusch

Scamming the Scammer:Revenge was sweet until . . . it wasn’t

I string along Medicare scammers for sport—playing the fumbling old woman, hiding the phone in a kitchen drawer, feeding fake numbers to men who think they've found an easy mark. It's satisfying, even funny, until a woman named Melissa picks up the phone. She's good—too good—and something about her voice makes the game feel different. What starts as a story about outsmarting con artists turns into something harder to laugh off

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— Amanda Barusch