And for most victims, a heart attack is their first and only indication that anything is wrong. They suffer from a condition known as SADS – Sudden Arrhythmic Disease. But every week, up to ten young Australians die because their hearts simply stop. Heart attack is only supposed to happen to the middle-aged and the elderly. Reporter: Peter Overton/ Producer: Sandra Cleary They’re celebrating, happily spending their hard-earned savings on something completely different – themselves. And their Mums and Dads couldn’t be more pleased, most of them, anyway. Back then, they were sleeping in their childhood bedrooms, letting their parents pay the bills and stashing away money for a future that never seemed to arrive. Peter Overton first met these coddled twenty and thirty-somethings five years ago. That generation of stay-at-home kids has finally grown up and flown the coop. And surprisingly it’s now straight women who are among the most vulnerable. But the shock tactics worked and the rate of HIV infection in Australia plummeted. They weren’t exactly subtle – in fact, they scared the hell out of us. And thanks to those confronting ads in the 80s, we all knew it. It wasn’t so long ago, that AIDS was a guaranteed death sentence. And if you’re anything like us, just watching this report from American 60 Minutes’ Lara Logan, will have you clinging to the edge of your seat. Using only his body strength and amazing mental stamina, Alex scales sheer cliff walls as high as the world’s tallest buildings – completely unassisted, simply for the thrill. This madness is called free-soloing and no rock climber in the world does it better than 26-year-old Alex Honnald. All that’s keeping him from plunging to his death are his toes and finger tips. A young man, clinging to the side of a sheer rock face, a thousand metres up – with no ropes, no harness, nothing to catch his fall. What you’re about to see on Sunday night defies belief and the laws of gravity. We set up a sting of our own and it wasn’t long before the sharks took the bait. So we decided to take them on at their own game. Now they don’t just bankrupt their victims, they break their hearts as well. Maybe that’s why the men behind those dodgy emails have moved on to scams that are more sophisticated and far more callous. In fact, no hope of ever seeing our money again. Most of us have figured out by now, that transferring our life savings into a Nigerian bank account is a mug’s game.
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