Phan Anh Nhung, 39, is the daughter of a former prostitute and a Vietnam War-era U.S. GI. Years ago, she was nearly resettled in the U.S. But consulate officers discovered she was cooperating with scam artists hoping to pawn off a bogus Vietnamese family as her relatives so they too could emigrate.
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