Intelligence Brief
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.
Arrested at the Door: A Gold Courier Stopped Before the Second Pickup
Michigan deputies caught a courier walking up to an elderly woman's home to collect $60,000. She had already lost nearly $500,000, including $237,000 in gold coins.
A Nevada Case Shows Scam Couriers Now Collect Gold, Not Just Cash
A pig-butchering scheme moved a victim's savings through cash and bullion handoffs across two states
The Gold Bar Handoff
NYPD links a familiar tech-support pretext to a new commodity at the point of collection
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