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
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
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