The Fraudfather's Dead Drop

Two Frauds, Zero Justice: Why California's Billionaire Tax Fails

How "buy, borrow, die" tax avoidance and a $20 billion "solution" both end with working people paying the bill

Follow the Money to Nowhere

Two-week pilots become $100 million unicorns, the worst-performing state gets carved out of accountability, and systematic fraud wins when enforcement becomes selective

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When Everyone's a Scammer, Who's Really Stealing?

The psychology of petty theft reveals why 2025 became the year ordinary Americans justified becoming criminals

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Meta Makes $16 Billion From Scam Ads While Hosting Half of All Rental Fraud

Meta earns $16 billion annually from scam advertising while 50% of rental fraud victims found their fake listings on Facebook, plus: Medicare scammers call individual seniors 50-60 times daily during enrollment, and AI hackers now outperform humans at $18 per hour

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The Missing Comma That Cost a Firefighter His Cancer Coverage

How insurance companies exploit legal ambiguity to systematically deny claims, plus: 63% of banks admit underreporting fraud losses, elder fraud hits $81.5 billion as six-figure losses become normal, and why marketplace payment links are draining accounts the moment sellers click

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Your bank's 2025 report card: F

71% of fraud is now automated account takeover, but banks are investing in backend liability management instead of the customer education that would actually stop it.

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Does Your Teenager Know What OPSEC Is? (One Didn't. Cost: $47K)

Teen OPSEC failures, malware hidden in images, athletes targeted for identity theft, and crypto holders attacked at gunpoint.

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The Fraud Vendor Who Cried Wolf: Inside the Business of Fake Safety

Ninety percent of firms feel protected, almost all are getting hit, while pandemic scammers buy Porsches with lunch money.

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How the System Became the Scam

Mandated compliance hands criminals your ID. Promised stimulus costs more than it pays. Verified hiring placed enemy operatives. When the system becomes the scam, who do you trust?

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Dead Drop Dossier: The Persuasion Frameworks

A Former Intelligence Officer Reveals 8 Dark Psychology Techniques That Control Human Decision-Making, And How to Use Them Ethically

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Heads They Win, Tails You Lose

Brushing scams reveal your stolen data. The housing crisis is systematic theft. This week's Dead Drop exposes fraud hiding in plain sight. Expert analysis.

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