Intelligence Brief
When Someone Offers to Get It Back
California's attorney general listed recovery scams among the crypto schemes he warned about on October 20. A loss can make the next call sound like help.
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.
Being Careful Is Not a Plan
How to protect your aging parents from financial scams - the doors a family can close in an afternoon, and the one rule to agree on before the phone rings
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
The Offer to Get It Back
A $36 million scheme posed as attorneys and targeted people who had already lost money. Its organizer pleaded guilty this month.
San Francisco Funds Free Counseling for Scam Victims
A three-year, $3 million grant is paying for a city-run program built to help residents after a scam, not just warn them before one.
The Fraud-Recovery Call Is the Second Scam
Why anyone who has already been defrauded — most of them older adults — is now a target again