Matthew Delaney 10/29/26 Matthew Delaney 10/29/26

The Visitor Is the Clue

A man sentenced to 14 years met an elderly victim nearly a dozen times, in different cars. The family could not have known the script, but they could have noticed the visits.

Matthew Delaney 10/20/26 Matthew Delaney 10/20/26

When the Money Leaves in a Shoebox

An 82-year-old in Florida handed $18,400 to a stranger who said she worked for a federal agency. How to bring up money with a parent without taking over.

Matthew Delaney 10/14/26 Matthew Delaney 10/14/26

The Moment Is the Handoff

Four federal sentences landed this month for the same crime - a stranger collecting cash or gold at an older adult's door. That handoff is the clearest warning sign a family will get.

Matthew Delaney 10/13/26 Matthew Delaney 10/13/26

What 'Safekeeping' Sounds Like

A guilty plea in California puts a courier's script on the record, and the key word is one a teller or adviser can hear.

Matthew Delaney 10/12/26 Matthew Delaney 10/12/26

A Text About a Purchase, Then Three Pickups

A Reno courier received 45 years in a case that began with a link and ended with cash and gold at the door.

Matthew Delaney 10/10/26 Matthew Delaney 10/10/26

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.

Matthew Delaney 10/8/26 Matthew Delaney 10/8/26

When the Call-Back Confirms the Lie

Callers posing as federal agents now use real agents' names from spoofed real office numbers, so checking with the office no longer settles anything

Matthew Delaney 9/19/26 Matthew Delaney 9/19/26

A Ventura County Sting Interrupts a Cash-Courier Scam Mid-Pickup

Investigators say the man who collected $20,000 in cash from an elderly victim was arrested attempting to collect a second payment.

Matthew Delaney 9/4/26 Matthew Delaney 9/4/26

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

Matthew Delaney 8/29/26 Matthew Delaney 8/29/26

The Accidental Deposit Script

An Irvine, California arrest exposes a bank-impersonation scheme built on a single believable sentence

Matthew Delaney 8/14/26 Matthew Delaney 8/14/26

A Guilty Plea Shows Exactly How Fraud Networks Outrun Bank Controls

A federal case out of Phoenix names the mechanism: convert the money before any hold can reach it

Matthew Delaney 7/31/26 Matthew Delaney 7/31/26

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

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