Intelligence Brief
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