Intelligence Brief
California Turns a Fraud Safeguard Into Law, Not a Checklist Item
Senate Bill 255 requires every county to mail a deed-and-mortgage alert within 30 days, closing a gap that used to depend on someone remembering to enroll
A New Line Into FINRA
The regulator's 2026 oversight report names a fraud-intelligence channel and a dedicated focus on Trusted Contact Persons
The Gold Bar Handoff
NYPD links a familiar tech-support pretext to a new commodity at the point of collection
The Entry Is the Exposure
Prize fraud is old enough to have its own federal statute. What is worth a second look is that the search demand sits on the entry side, and that is where the research says the risk starts.
The Deletion Clock Started
California's data broker platform went live on 1 August. The enforcement case behind it shows why reducing exposure is the lever that exists, and prosecution is not.
The Loan They Didn't Know They'd Signed
A federal reverse mortgage prosecution shows what equity extraction looks like when someone catches it. The instrument that counts elder exploitation was never built to.
Six Hundred Transactions
Two federal sentencings eleven days apart describe the same detection failure, and it is not one a threshold report can catch.