claiming to his employer, limited to no use of his left arm. >> to that you say? >> busted. >> tonight on "20/20," are you surrounded by a bunch of moochers? she's spinning the wheel. this ex-cop says he can't work. but look at him online. our "20/20" has got ya. are they cashing in on disability by faking it? and, scam psychics.

making fortunes off your misery. plus, kobe bryant, sharon osborne. oprah. their relatives who take them, like oprah's ex-step mom. and who's mooching who when the irs comes calling? the audit with a very special return. tonight, we're catching them on tape and putting on the cuffs. here's elizabeth vargas and david muir. >> tonight, you don't need us to tell you this was tax week.

but are your tax dollars being spent by others who claim they're hurt? come on down. >> you're in for a showcase showdown. why are people too hurt to work showing up on game shows and going on vacations? cecilia vega tracks them down. >> reporter: say you're in the audience of "the price is right," and you hear those three famous words. >> come on down! >> reporter: you do what the man tells you. fast, like this woman, cathy cashwell. >> 1,375 dollars! cathy, c'mon up here! >> reporter: but a fortune in fabulous prizes wasn't the only thing cashwell was collecting. true to her name, cashwell was also raking in three grand a month in workers' comp, claiming an on-the-job shoulder injury left her totally unable to stand, run, reach or grasp. >> there you go, good luck.

>> reporter: but there she is, spinning that big heavy wheel, not once, but twice. wow, who knew drew carey was a miracle worker? ♪ cashwell is just one of the countless people accused of faking an injury to collect on disability payments. experts estimate bogus injury claims cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars a year. and questionable claims are up 24% from last year. moochers like valerie scroggins, a bus driver who claimed a severe shoulder injury prevented her from getting behind the wheel. but that's her, behind the drums. investigators caught her on camera playing in her punk band. later, she pleaded guilty to fraud. this airline employee claimed her ankle was so mangled she couldn't stand, squat or bend yet here she is, looking like she's eligible for the nfl draft.

her case was settled after she was busted on tape. the same goes for this guy who said he hurt his back while working for a major food and beverage company. his physical restrictions? bending, twisting, turning. investigators gave him a perfect ten, for cheating. ♪ >> reporter: it takes a secret agent of sorts to catch injury imposters in the act. >> i always loved james bond. >> you wanted to be a spy? >> absolutely, absolutely. >> reporter: and in this cat and mouse game, nobody does it better than chicago-based private eye bob kiehn. he's a moocher-busting 007 armed with a minivan packed full of spy gear. tricks in the trunk. what you got? >> full camo, just in case. >> reporter: his targets often try to evade detection, but once caught red-handed by our master of disguise, they often settle their cases. like this car company worker, marwan khouri, who reported severe back and neck injuries,

yet was still able to wield a pick axe. his lawyer says the video does not reveal the extent of the injury. but from here, it looks like we've got a gold digger. or this steelworker, cashing in on a left shoulder injury while playing with power tools. >> he's claiming to his employer limited to no use of his left arm. >> and to that you say? >> busted. all right, let's get her. >> reporter: to see the expert in action, kiehn takes "20/20" out on a case as observers. staking out a supermarket worker whose doctors say should be wheelchair-bound. her boss wants to know how much she's really hurting. >> we're here to document how she really moves. >> reporter: we know our mark has a doctor's appointment, but today we're the ones doing the check-up. after waiting for more than two hours, we spot her. and not a wheelchair in sight. we can't show her face because the case is still active. and, speaking of active.

the chase is on. >> now the fun starts. >> i'm holding on! >> reporter: we're burning rubber to stay on her tail. following her car as it barrels down i-88, where apparently speed limits are just a suggestion. >> five over the speed limit. >> five or -- >> five. >> reporter: after pursuing our target for 50 miles, we catch up with her at a doctor's office northwest of chicago. remember, her doctors say she should be confined to a wheelchair, but there are still no wheels in sight. her case is pending in the courts. what do you think about people like that, people who think they can beat the system? >> it's those people that are raising the insurance premiums. that's why i do this. >> reporter: catching injury scammers the old school way clearly takes a lot of effort. but sometimes you don't even have to leave the office, because who needs a secret agent when the bad guys are blasting their behavior on social media? remember cathy cashwell, the

enthusiastic contender on "the price is right" who claimed to be totally disabled? she posted her vacation pictures online. here she is flying high, literally, zip-lining and hang gliding on facebook. in a statement to "20/20," cashwell said that despite how she looks in those images, she was, quote, "hurting the whole time." but she was collecting the whole time too. and last year, thanks to those damning depictions, she pleaded guilty to fraud. >> fraud is a fancy word for telling a lie. it's stealing with your pencil, as opposed to stealing with a gun. >> reporter: it turns out the "price is right" double dealer isn't the only one to give herself away online. and it may not get any lower than this. scores of former new york city cops and firefighters indicted for falsely claiming they had ptsd and anxiety as a result of the september 11th terrorist attacks. >> i can only express disgust at the actions of the individuals

involved in this scheme. >> reporter: individuals like glen lieberman, who said he was so crippled by mental illness he couldn't leave his house. but he's looking far from adrift in this facebook photo released by prosecutors. his lawyer claims this photo was taken before lieberman became sick. then there's louis hurtado, who allegedly collected almost half a million bucks for his depression from a back injury. investigators found him online, running a karate school and teaching black belt. to quote the karate kid's mr. miyagi -- >> no such thing as bad student, only bad teacher. >> reporter: and authorities say this man, richard cosentino, claimed he was too depressed to go outside. that must mean he caught this giant fish in his living room?

one of the most brave -- brazen defendants -- allegedly, lying about suffering from depression. and then collecting almost $150,000 in disability. meanwhile, prosecutors say he was living large with stolen money, taking exotic trips to places like indonesia. >> they keep paying us, they keep downloading money every single week, we're getting e-mails that said congratulations, you have money. >> hey i'm cecilia vega from 20/20. >> reporter: we wanted to ask lamantia about his seemingly remarkable recovery. >> the prosecutors are saying you're essentially a cop who scammed the system. >> that's not, i'm not a cop -- >> you were a cop, at one point. why don't you give me a quick comment and we'll get out of your hair. >> i'm sorry. i really can't. >> you know they say that -- >> as you can see, my hair is long and you're in it. >> you claimed to be so mentally ill that you couldn't work, and yet you were still working on the side, basically defrauding.

>> hold on, i just can't -- i'm on the phone right now. >> reporter: lamantia and the other defendants in the case all pleaded not guilty. despite the many who have been busted trying to cash in after claiming to be hurt, there are thousands more willing to give this well-worn scheme a shot. what do you have to do in order to pull this off? >> the best way and only way of beating the system is completely staying in your house, not leaving for three to five years. because anything you do outside of that and we're there, we're going to get it. >> so, what's the craziest story you ever told to get out of work? let us know on twitter. when we come back, the fortu fortune tellers caught with their hands in your pocket. plus, he got caught by a

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>> lawyers, professional athletes, college professors. people call me from all walks of life. >> this sounds outlandish. why do people fall for it? >> people are going through a very difficult time in their life, and they're very vulnerable. >> i would like to think that, being an intelligent human being, that this could have never happened to me, and it did. >> reporter: debra saalfield was in a bad place. she'd lost her job, she'd lost her boyfriend, and was on the verge of just losing it, period. debra needed help, but instead of going to a therapist, a minister, or even a yogi, she found herself going here -- a a storefront in new york city. the psychic's name is sylvia mitchell, a 39-year old mystic from mystic, connecticut. charming? >> very charming, comforting. very pretty, dressed nicely. >> reporter: debra selects from the psychic's menu and ponies up $75.

>> they tell you that they know that they can help you, but they have to do a deeper reading. the next amount is $1,000. they would meet only three times, but mitchell tells debra the root of her problem is she's too attached to money. the psychic is more than happy to try and break that attachment. as an exercise in trust, the fortune teller wants debra to write out a check for $27,000. it is to be held and returned at a later date, or so she is told. but when she said "give me $27,000," didn't the light go off in the head? >> being in a very vulnerable place, i acquiesced. >> reporter: you wrote the check. >> made a huge mistake. >> reporter: she's not the only one to make a mistake. >> the psychic industry is estimated to bring in about $2 billion to $3 billion dollars. >> reporter: billion. >> billion, with a b. >> reporter: and the p.i. says some of those rundown psychic shops storefronts are actually cash cows. they don't look like much from

the outside. >> the same people that you see that, are shabbily dressed, sitting in a little storefront, are the same people that when i track them, and follow them, they're living in a million dollar house, on the intercoastal in florida. and they're driving around in a maserati, or a lamborghini, or a ferrari. >> reporter: and that makes nygaard a busy man. we're following him as he criss-crosses the country working cases in florida, california and new york simultaneously. the stories are sensational, the dollar figures staggering. take the case of actor bryan james, currently starring on hollywood's walk of shame. two years ago, he drove by this psychic shop in the valley. he was searching for answers about a romantic interest and decided to stop in. >> i was completely gullible. i was completely sucked in. >> reporter: bryan is so intrigued by his first encounter with psychic april lee, he returns again and again.

a bond forms. the two share meals and spend holidays together. in fact, bryan is spending all his free time with the psychic and virtually none with his family. >> i'm mad at the psychic for how she manipulated my son. >> reporter: over the months to follow, bryan says he is groomed to do whatever april lee asks. he's instructed to collect random items. >> getting pennies, getting a watch, getting dolls and wrapping them up. >> reporter: nygaard says the tasks are designed to let a psychic gauge how much control she has over her customer. then bryan hears that she has reached out to his love interest, and the feelings are mutual. >> she's pretending to send me

text messages from that person, pretending to give me gifts from that person. >> but there's a price for love, and the psychic begins asking bryan to foot the bill. when he doesn't have it, the psychic allegedly comes up with a scheme to get the money through brian's mom mary. brian dupes his mother into believing the money will for used for acting lessons and a high powered hollywood agent. >> you could hear the urgency in his voice, like, i need it now, like he was petrified, and i just did it. >> reporter: and that's how mary james goes from doting mother to a personal atm. >> it started with $10,000, $20,000, $15,000, and then it grew. we're talking fifty. or we're talking a hundred. >> reporter: mary is not a wealthy woman. the money she's handing over to brian, who, in turn is handing over to april lee, is coming from her retirement account. she gives and gives for nearly two years, until she's drained dry. >> $950,000. it's my retirement. it's gone. >> according to brian, the psychic had always maintained his story would have a happy ending.

she promised he would end up with the love of his life, be a hollywood star, and -- >> she always stressed that everything that i did, that i would be getting the money back. >> nearly two years later, none of it has happened. wracked with guilt and shame, he confesses. >> he said, "i finally need to tell you." "all the money went to a psychic." and it's really hard to process it, but it's -- it's the truth. >> reporter: nygaard says the vulnerable are the easiest victims. remember debra saalfield and the check for $27,000? >> i had taken out a credit line on my home, because i was recently divorced and needed emergency money. >> reporter: and now she had it. >> she did. >> reporter: she was that good, that convincing. >> she's really good. >> reporter: saalfield finally breaks free of the psychic's hold on her. she races to her bank. >> by the time i'd gone to my bank to cancel the check, the,

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>> reporter: like so many people who say they are victims of psychic fraud, brian james first turned to police for help. good luck with that. >> they go in and say, "i was ripped off by a fortune teller, a psychic." the first thing the cop does is roll their eyes, and say, "you gotta be kidding me." >> people, even watching this, tonight, will say, "why is it a crime?" if these people were gullible enough -- >> the number one answer, when people walk into a police station is, it's a civil matter. and they're told, "there's the door." >> reporter: again, no sympathy from police. and that's when people call nygaard. his conversation with cops often goes like this. >> i say, listen, when this person first came in, you told them it was a civil matter. you know what? i did your job for 21 years and i know differently. it's a criminal matter. >> reporter: that's exactly what nygaard told new york authorities after one of his clients was ripped off by psychic betty vlado. vlado somehow convinced her victim to hand over 50 grand including $14,000 for this

crystal which she claimed had healing powers. vlado was convicted of grand larceny. but the shame of getting duped often leaves victims wanting to crawl under a rock. >> it's not about psychic ability. it's about simple theft. it's about applying the law to theft. >> bob nygaard is, in my opinion, an american hero. >> reporter: debra saalfield hired bob nygaard to put the kibosh on sylvia mitchell's fortune telling flim-flam. no small task. mitchell is long gone from the plush greenwich village shop. it takes seven months, but with the help of an informant, nygaard tracks her to connecticut, where mitchell is arrested. it's debra's chance to get all her money back. but then, a stunning twist. >> the defense offered to give you your money back. >> they did. i turned it down. >> you could have had all your $27,000 back and walked away. >> that's true. >> why not? >> because there was another

victim involved in the case, and i didn't want to let the other victim down by not testifying. >> reporter: if the psychic walks, debra is out thousands of dollars. it is a huge gamble, says florida's state attorney dave aronberg. >> these cases are difficult to prove. a jury wonders, how could anyone be fooled by this? >> is there a sense, even among law enforcement, that these victims brought it upon themselves? >> it's my experience that jurors will think that way. >> reporter: but in debra's case, the jurors do believe her. yes, the sad expression on sylvia mitchell's face indicates maybe she can see the future. >> guilty. >> convicted of grand larceny, mitchell is sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison. she must also pay restitution to her victims. >> there's other victims that have lost far more than i have, and they've lost not only their money, they've lost their jobs,

they've lost their integrity. they've lost their self-esteem. that's not easy to get back. >> reporter: the poster boy for low self-esteem might well be bryan james, who ruined his mother financially with his decision to repeatedly see a psychic. remember now. she's out nearly a million dollars. >> i want nothing more than my mom to be paid back. >> reporter: nygaard says if mary james is ever going to see a dime of her money back, the psychic, april lee, will first need to be arrested. but there is a problem. the lapd is not interested in taking the case. brian went to the lapd. he walked in and tried to report the crime and an officer said to him, "well, i've got advice for you. don't ever go see a psychic again." always elusive, april lee is finally tracked down. she's driving in style in a brand new mercedes. we spot her again in a theme park waiting to have lunch. nygaard has bryan reach out to april. the psychic wants an additional

$511,000 to continue removing that curse that supposedly swirls around brian. >> these people, they financially exploit somebody under the guise of offering them assistance. >> reporter: nygaard still needs help from law enforcement. he finds it at the d.a.'s office in santa clara county. >> our office considers this crime to be treacherous. >> reporter: it's time to play sting the psychic. the operation will be spearheaded by veteran investigator dennis brookins. >> my job as a criminal investigator is to help victims. my job is not to turn victims away. >> reporter: a script is written. the plot is laid out. and the young actor will now have the lead role in this very personal drama. bryan calls april and says he has the money. the transfer of more than half a million dollars is supposed to take place inside an escrow office in san jose. >> so i came up with a plan that

his mother was going to sell a piece of property, and obtain the money because of the sale. >> reporter: but there's a snag. >> the defendant said she had to stay out in the parking lot and she was going to mediate. >> reporter: brian improvises. emerging from the vehicle, he goes into the office alone. he says april and her husband, who is driving, think they are moments away from a huge pay day. >> once i knew the victim was secure with other investigators inside the building, i instructed the arrest team to come in behind their vehicle and block it so they could not leave. >> reporter: this video shows the moment april lee is arrested. >> april looked shocked. they had no idea they were gonna get arrested. they came to santa clara county for one reason only and that was greed. >> reporter: bail is set at half million dollars each. april's attorney says his client is innocent and calls this a civil matter. >> it was just really great to

see brian be able to turn the tables on the con artist. >> bob nygaard says he's recovered more than $2 million in cash and property for victims of psychic cons. but there's more to be done. he's currently working on ten new cases. so before you pay for a peek at your future, a word of warning from those still reeling from the recent past. >> if anybody is feeling vulnerable, down on their luck, needy, please, please don't go to a psychic. please. so, have you ever gone to a fortune teller? or are you too savvy? >> when we come back, six letters we thought you'd never

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now, more of moochers. here's chris conley. >> reporter: riding through the rural oregon landscape. looks exhilarating, doesn't it? ah, but up to his handlebars in a big time brouhaha with the internal revenue service. 40-year-old vince burroughs is no easy rider thanks to whoa-oh, that summer night. >> honestly, i felt like, like a cheap whore. >> reporter: after normal business hours, at 9 pm here in eugene, oregon, vince burroughs opened his front door, he says, to dora abrahamson. she was an irs agent. she was auditing him. the two had never met before. >> she said she was gonna do my paperwork.

she came up the stairs, knocked on the door. i opened the door. >> reporter: what he says happened next, as in immediately -- you had sex. >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: how would you characterize that sexual encounter? >> it was forced upon me. >> trading sex for cheaper taxes? >> reporter: well, it would get a lot of people talking. >> burroughs says he got several flirtatious text messages. >> he was seduced by dora abrahamson. she was an irs agent. >> she showed up at his house and said. look, have sex with me. >> reporter: it would get a lot more of them laughing. >> and of course, the guy was stunned. he thought only people making more than $250,000 a year got screwed by the irs. >> reporter: and it would leave vince himself feeling, "wait, what?" >> a stress case. i just feel like i am gonna cry right now, but i am trying not to. >> reporter: years ago, vince says, he was making good money as a local contractor, until the economy hit the skids. vince got behind on his taxes,

$20,000 worth, he figured. when the call came from the irs he says it was dora on the line. >> and she goes, "oh, wait a minute. i think i know you." i go, "okay, how do you know me?" and she goes, "do you race motorcycles?" >> reporter: funny she should ask. in fact, he had won a few races locally. vince says she knew who he was, but when she texted him this selfie, vince didn't recognize her. >> and she goes, "well, you are really lucky that i got your audit." >> reporter: what is it like to hear the word audit from the irs? >> i started shaking immediately. my heart rate went up. i just tried to cooperate with them as much as i could. >> reporter: that meant digging out bank records. vince could kill an elk with a bow and arrow. tracking down receipts? yeah, not so much. good news, says vince, was that dora seemed most eager to help out. >> she was sending me texts. some of them made me feel like i am lucky that she has got my audit, 'cause she is gonna help

me, and then, some of them made me feel like i think this girl wants something else. >> i need a hug bad. do you have one? you are my secret project. how does that feel, exclamation point. >> reporter: vince's lawyer showed a document featuring friendly-sounding texts, they say were sent by dora. >> i will be there if you text me your address. oh boy, i got a small surprise. you want a massage? i can put you to sleep. >> reporter: so what about vince's texts to her? and where are your texts? >> on a cell phone in my attorney's office. >> there were very few texts from him. and whatever there were from him had been erased. >> reporter: oh, really? sounds like a few of these texts were responses to something. >> when she was texting me all this sexual stuff, i did not want to act like i wasn't interested as far as her auditing me. >> reporter: so you never told her, "i'd like you to stop with the sexual stuff?" >> i didn't. >> reporter: a week or so after the audit began, vince hadn't gotten the papers he needed together yet. he says dora asked about stopping by to give him a hand. and then, well, we asked vince

to re-enact what he claims took place. >> and she just pushed me back, and i kind of went back, and i landed like that, and she immediately came over, got on top of me, started kissing on me. then she leaned up and started tearing my shirt off. she took me by the arm, she looked back a couple times and smiled at me, this seductive smile, i guess you could say. >> the rest really should come with its own bow-chicka-wow soundtrack. what happened when she brought you in here? >> she put her foot up here like this, spun, flopped down on the bed, and pulled me on top of her, and she was kissing me, and then she rolled over on top of me. we finished removing my clothes, removed her clothes, and things happened. >> reporter: you think dora abrahamson might remember things differently? so did we, but she declined our offer to come on-camera and give her side. do you have any regrets? >> i regret not calling her boss, because she's taken something from me that i'll never get back. >> reporter: what's that?

>> self-respect. >> reporter: did we mention that vince had a longtime girlfriend? yeah, about that -- >> she's moved out. i don't know what's gonna happen with the relationship. i love her so much, and i just hope she can understand. >> reporter: a few days after their encounter, vince says he got another call from dora. she was stepping down from his audit. conflict of interest, he says she explained. when the new irs agent said vince owed some $69,000, well -- >> somebody has to be accountable for what the irs does, because they are unaccountable. they run with no leash on. >> reporter: so vince took legal action. and even though at one point he says she'd texted him this sexy self-portrait, he now had more than dora in his sights. >> i am suing dora abrahamson and the united states of america

for sexual coercion and the violation of privacy act. >> reporter: it was the allegations about dora that got all those headlines. in court papers, she denied them. >> david muehl has spoken to her briefly since that happened. >> reporter: what can you tell us about what her state of mind was? >> she felt that her name was being smeared. in some ways, she was sympathetic. she was crying. >> reporter: in fact, he's considering dropping dora from the suit. so if vince wins, citizens could be footing the bill for the messy afterglow. >> i imagine the taxpayers aren't going to be happy about paying any settlement. >> reporter: what do you think would constitute justice in this case? >> justice would be served if the government write out a check for $100,000. >> reporter: you know some people are gonna be thinking, he got a free one. not only did he get a free one, he now wants the government to pay for the free one that he got. >> i guess they'd have to be in my shoes.

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friends they've imagined. such as "seinfeld's" kramer. >> his whole life is a comedy act. do nothing, fall ass-back wards into money and then do nothing with the earnings. >> high-celebrity earnings can be besieged in real life. they don't just ask for a fridge, they want the whole house. just ask oprah winfrey. >> when i was making $22,000 a year, everybody always needed $50. when i made $50,000 a year, everybody needsed 500. now, nobody needs less than $50,000. >> even oprah has her dior self limits.

when they divorced, oprah asked them to move out. >> god has blessed you to be a billionaire and this what you to? >> oprah, according to a spokesperson, reportedly to split the profits from the sale out of the house. but for this ex-step mom, talk isn't that cheap. she knows i know the story. and to set me out now, why shouldn't i just tell my story. >> here's a true story, family can be more avid than anyone to raid the bank of a big name. >> why do you think relatives of the famous are so evil for your mother. >> it's tough they're family. it's like they become royalty.

>> there should be a celebrity family union. and they should negotiate different rates. that's it. we cut them off after that. >> these days, you can be seen twisting the night away in anymo nynphomania. he was kind enough to lend his uncle a sack of cash. $800,000. author of celebrity, inc.,

question knows all about celebrities and their money. >> i couldn't really expect that he had to repay the loan. >> i want to help you. i do. but i am not some alien ambassador. >> reported $5 million ser moenny? a more than 800,000 dlargs relative misunderstand standing. big problem. >> all he does is earn money from selling lies abds foul things about myself and my family.

the pair had a falling out afl they're father's death. >> all i did was give him money. i employed him. i gave him whatever he want. >> fresh-face ds and effortly honest. if actress claimed the $7500 a month she sent went to her mother's money cravings, instead and was used for a new face on these things saying con stance had zero right to mooch off her daughter's dough. >> there's a real sense of swietlement. everybody thinks that they did a

little something special and they think they deserve it. >> there is nothing like a good lie. you lie, the person accepts it completely. >> his half brother, who, whole heart dpli, lived off his earnings, embezzling after a four-year period. >> that half brother was sentenced to no kidding time in the state penn. basketball star kobe brient stay inned. she did wind up selling a couple of high school jerseys. the 2000 nba all-star ring. they settled their differences. his pashlts apologized publicly.

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