Intelligence Brief
Where the $248,000 Went
A Connecticut indictment follows one retirement withdrawal through five bank accounts and a copier wholesaler. The first step looked like ordinary banking.
Why Gold Keeps Coming Up
Pennsylvania State Police describe callers who tell people to turn savings into gold to "clear their name." The purchase may be the only moment a bank sees.
Told to Buy Gold to Protect It: 168 Months for an Augusta Courier
DOJ's primary release shows the victim was walked through buying cryptocurrency and gold before the courier arrived. Each purchase was a transaction someone else could see.
The Man Who Took the Gold
A federal jury in Austin convicted the US coordinator of an elder-fraud scheme that ran on cash and gold handed over in person.
California's Banks Must Now Tell the FBI, and the Customer
AB 871 adds an IC3 report, a 48-hour notice and annual training to every elder-abuse report a California bank files, from January 2028
One Script, Four Counties: Inside the Two-Call Cash-Courier Scam
A fabricated computer or bank alert, a second caller with the fix, and cash handed to a stranger at the door — the same structure produced charges and losses across four markets in a single week
The Accidental Deposit Script
An Irvine, California arrest exposes a bank-impersonation scheme built on a single believable sentence
Six Hundred Transactions
Two federal sentencings eleven days apart describe the same detection failure, and it is not one a threshold report can catch.
A prosecutor published the whole script, and it ends with a password at the door
What the Ventura County charging document shows the people who handle older adults' money
Eleven Guilty Pleas Later, a $65 Million Elder Fraud Ring Comes Into Focus
What a years-long San Diego prosecution reveals about how courier and mail-based scams actually operate