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In this chapter, I try to describe the experience, as someone new to research, of engaging with people who had been, in various ways, defrauded. I was not prepared for the emotional toll it had on me, nor for the fact that I was pretty much left to my own devices when navigating my way through interactions with a range of people. I was surprised and, to be honest, a little dismayed by the trust they placed in me as they laid bare some painful experiences.