Intelligence Brief
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.
The Title Changed Quietly
A Riverside case shows how a home can be put up for sale through paperwork alone, and which notice would have caught it sooner
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
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
The Person With the Keys
In the elder-fraud prosecutions we track, cases built on a stranger's phone call now sit beside a larger group built on access someone was given.
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
Five Became Ten
FINRA's proposed universal fraud delay doubled between the January notice and the version filed with the SEC. Firms briefed on the notice are briefed on a superseded number.
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.
The Bank Called, Then a Driver Came for the Cards
A San Diego sentencing shows how a spoofed caller ID and a rideshare pickup turned a fraud warning into the fraud itself.
When the Statements Stop Arriving
Two federal cases this month took money from older customers without a single scam call. The first visible sign was a change to the account record.
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.
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.
A Government Permit Invoice Scam Crosses County Lines
Two county governments this month reported the same phishing mechanism — a real case number, a fake domain, a demand to pay by wire.
What Changed in the Larigent Fraud Lifecycle This Quarter
What changed in the framework since spring, and why the pieces had to arrive in this order
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
A Grandparent-Fraud Sentencing Names Victims in Three States
A federal money-laundering case out of Pittsburgh shows how far one scam script travels
A County's Own Arrest Log Became a Targeting Tool
Scammers mining public jail rosters to identify a defendant's family, then calling to demand bail money, has now surfaced in three counties this year — and one sheriff just pulled the list
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
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