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A scam victim created a spoof social media post, and wore a wire to gather evidence to help prosecutors convict con man Rick Dugo.

at a gym in 2018. That's when Dugo pitched Albin an electronics deal too good to pass up. The deal was to buy 95 iPhones at a deep discount and then resell them for a profit. CBS Chicago / Carol Thompson / Mike Klingele for the phones, Albin never got any phones to resell.

"I would talk to one victim and they would lead me to another victim. It was call after call after call," Albin said."I've personally spoken to over 100." CBS 2 Legal Analyst Irv Miller is a former Cook County prosecutor. He knows the value of what Albin handed over. "That's the best piece of evidence you can get -- words out of a defendant's mouth at the time that the crime is occurring," Miller said."Kind of hard to defend against that."

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