This is Your FBI: The Traveling Swindle (syndicated)

This is your FBI. This is your FBI. The official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Tonight, the subject of our FBI file. Impersonation. It's titled...

The Traveling Swindle. The Criminal Mind, while warped and maladjusted, still functions in much the same manner as any other mind. It observes it memorizes it forms opinions, and one of these opinions seems to be that the American public is very gullible.

Basing many of their activities on this theory, criminals constantly endanger the public through the evils of fraud and misrepresentation. Many of these crimes seem more serious than others, but from the able-bodied beggar, who masquerades as a cripple to the fly-by-night stockbroker, their stuck-in-trade is fraud.

And as in tonight's case, your law enforcement agencies must depend on your cooperation to wipe it out. Tonight's FBI file opens in a Midwestern state. It is late afternoon. A travel-worn sedan labors faithfully along a tree-shaded road, as it pulls a heavy house trailer behind it.

In the front seat of the car sits a man and woman both in the early 40s. In the back seat there are two young children who play a game to pass the time. I see something great!

The great! No! Those leaves! No! I were almost past this! Dora and then what was up there? No! And I went and we passed it. That big sign pulls back there smarty. I didn't see no sign pulls.

No! No! No! No! No! I'm going to send you back to the trailer. Your pup is tired and he's driven a long way. Was green! Never you mind, you just sit there and be quiet for a spell.