The scam my dad fell for didn’t start with a request for money. It started with kindness: talk of family; encouragement to spoil my mom; a slow, patient friendship. By the time an “investment opportunity” came up, Dad had already given his trust — the point he kept stressing, afterward, as proof it couldn’t have been a con. That’s not an accident. It’s a script. “It’s like a playbook, right?” says Courtney Werning, an investor-rights […]