🔥 Last Week, Yields Screamed. This Week, We Found Out Why.

We told you the 10-year wasn’t just another bond—it’s the spinal cord of global finance.

And when it spasms? Everything seizes.

Last week, it twitched.
This week, it snapped—and now we know who was standing on it.

👉 Hedge funds.
Leveraged 50-to-1.
Running trillion-dollar “basis trades” that treat the world’s safest asset like a casino chip.

And when their bets go bad?
They don’t lose. You do.

Because instead of letting these trades detonate as they should, the Fed is quietly prepping a bailout facility for hedge funds blowing up the Treasury market.

You can't make this up.

🧥 This Isn’t 2008 in a Suit. It’s 2025 in a Patagonia vest.

Same leverage.
Same blind confidence.
Same bailout blueprint.

They’ve just rebranded the crisis.

🔁 Enter the Doom Loop

Here's how the basis trade burns the system:

1. Hedge funds buy Treasury bonds, sell futures, and lever up massively.

2. When volatility hits (say, from tariffs), Treasury prices fall.

3. That triggers margin calls.

4. Funds are forced to sell bonds.

5. Selling drives prices lower.

6. More margin calls. More liquidations. More volatility.

It’s a leveraged chain reaction.
And it's not theoretical. We saw it nearly destroy the bond market in March 2020.

The Fed had to print $1 trillion to stop it.

Now? They're planning to build a permanent rescue ramp for this exact trade—wrapped in academic language, but make no mistake:

It’s not about “market function.”
It’s about institutional protection.
Wall Street gets the parachute. Main Street gets the pavement.

📉 Let’s Make the Pain Real (Again)

👔 For the U.S. Government:
A 1% rise in yield = $340 billion in extra annual interest.

That’s more than the entire VA budget.
More than 10 years of Ukraine aid.
More than your kids will make in their lifetime.

🏠 For a Homebuyer:
$400,000 mortgage

• At 6%: $2,398/mo

• At 7.5%: $2,796/mo
  💥 That’s $398 more each month, or $143,000+ over 30 years.

You didn’t buy a bigger house.
You bought their risk.

💼 For Corporations:
That $1B in debt that used to cost 4%?
Now refinanced at 6.5%?
They’re paying $25 million more per year just to stand still.

Guess who gets cut first.

🧠 The Real Question: Safe for Who?

Everyone calls Treasuries “risk-free.”

But ask yourself:
Risk-free for who?

When hedge funds lever up and lose, they get:

• A facility at the Fed.

• A discounted unwind.

• A soft landing.

You get:

• An 8% mortgage.

• A frozen housing market.

• And a job market that bleeds with every rate hike.

They’re hedging with your future.
And the Fed is underwriting it—because in this version of capitalism, scale beats accountability.

📦 Inside This Week’s Dead Drop:

🧨 Stablecoins Just Got Their Badge—So Did the Scammers

Congress is calling it a breakthrough. We’re calling it what it is: a loaded gun with no safety switch.

The GENIUS Act gives stablecoins regulatory legitimacy—and with it, a new playground for fraud at the speed of light.
We break down:

• Why ACH delays were your best fraud defense

• How instant-settlement stablecoins destroy it

• The exact scam flows (wallets → bridges → mixers → gone) you’ll face next

• Why “freeze, seize, and burn” powers might backfire—hard

This isn’t just a policy update. It’s a total rewrite of how crime, money, and power interact.

🧠 Cognitive Warfare: The Art of Never Committing

Elizabeth I didn’t just rule England—she ruled perception.

This week’s power play isn’t about love. It’s about leverage.

• How strategic aloofness creates obsession

• Why desire rises with uncertainty

• How to apply this in negotiations, jobs, alliances, and relationships

• The cost of commitment—and the real power in remaining unpossessed

If you’ve ever been told to “pick a side,” this one’s for you.

🎙️ The Wiretap: PPP Loan Fraud? They Stole Your Refund? Strike Back.

A reader discovered the government seized their tax refund over a fake PPP loan.
We show you how to go full operator:

• Build a dossier that scares bureaucrats

• Weaponize the Treasury Offset Program

• Track the fraudster using OSINT

• Force SBA accountability with FOIA, affidavits, and congressional pressure

Fraud isn’t just a crime. It’s a signal. And the Fraudfather’s readers don’t just react—they counterattack.

Let’s get to work.

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They’re calling it a regulatory breakthrough.
We’re calling it what it is:

The official greenlight for weaponized money movement.

Last month, the Senate Banking Committee approved the GENIUS Act—the first real attempt to wrap stablecoins in regulation. They’re framing it as “sovereignty protection” for the U.S. dollar.

But underneath the legislative jargon is a new playing field.
One where money moves instantly.
Across borders.
With less friction—and more fog.

Here’s what you need to know:

🧠 What is the GENIUS Act?

• A framework that legitimizes “payment stablecoins”—digital dollars pegged 1:1 to fiat (Your USD)

• Issuers must be approved, audited, and regulated (federal or state level)

• Criminal penalties for unauthorized issuers

• Massive reserve, liquidity, and AML requirements

• Big brother surveillance hooks built into the code: freeze, seize, burn—on demand

Sounds tight, right?

Not so fast.

🔍 What the Legislation Really Enables

✅ Legitimizes instant global money movement
✅ Creates new regulatory complexity ripe for abuse
✅ Solidifies stablecoins as “cash equivalents” for market participants
✅ Opens the door for federal + state patchwork regulation = arbitrage heaven

And scammers?

They’re already licking their lips.

💣 Why This Will Change Scams Forever

(And how it breaks the fraud defenses built into the old system)

⚠️ Instant Settlement = Instant Laundering

In the ACH system:

• Transfers take 1–3 business days

• Fraud teams have hours (or days) to flag anomalies

• Pullback windows exist—banks can claw back funds in a dispute

• Human review still plays a role in high-value or suspicious transactions

In the Stablecoin future:

• Transfers settle in seconds. Globally. 24/7.

• No centralized gatekeeper. No delay. No reversals.

• Fraud teams don’t get a warning—they get a post-mortem

💡 Imagine a romance scammer sending $50K from a U.S. victim to three wallets, through a bridge, into a mixer, and back out into Monero—all before their bank would’ve even noticed the first ACH transfer.

Now it’s gone forever.

🔀 Cross-Chain Laundering Becomes Frictionless

With ACH or wires:

• Transfers move within siloed systems

• Fraud detection relies on identifying the parties involved

• Banks must KYC you before opening an account

With Stablecoins:

• Anyone can open a wallet—no name, no photo, no address

• Bridge protocols move funds across chains without friction

• Mixer contracts obliterate traceability

🕵️‍♂️ Scam flow example:
$USDC (Ethereum) → $USDT (Tron) → Tornado Cash (Ethereum) → XMR wallet → Exchange → Cash out
And unless you're tracking dozens of smart contracts and chain hops in real time? You’ll never see it.

🧱 Front-Door Legitimacy, Back-Door Chaos

In traditional finance:

• You need a license to operate as a money transmitter

• You’re audited. Examined. Subject to federal laws

• There’s a paper trail. Licenses can be revoked.

Under the GENIUS Act:

• Anyone approved as a “PPSI” (Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuer) can legally issue stablecoins

• Scammers can spin up shell entities, pass perfunctory audits, and launch “regulated” tokens

• Think: FTX meets PayPal—no actual banking, just the illusion of safety

🚨 These won’t look like scams.
They’ll look like legit fintechs, with clean branding, state approvals, and glowing testimonials—right up until the rug is pulled.

🧨 Surveillance Tools Will Be Abused

What the law says:
The GENIUS Act gives regulators (and PPSIs) the power to:

• Freeze assets

• Burn tokens

• Denylist wallets

• Block transfers on command

What the black hats see:

• Ransomware tools (“We’ll unfreeze your wallet—for a price”)

• Political coercion (“Comply or lose access to your money”)

• Private sector censorship (“Wallets linked to X ideology now blocked”)

🔒 When surveillance is built into money itself, your political, personal, and financial freedoms are all tied to the whims of whoever holds the keys.

🧨 Dead Drop Summary

• The GENIUS Act legitimizes stablecoins—good.

• It also accelerates instant, programmable fraud—bad.

• Regulation focuses on who issues the coin, but ignores how it’s used and abused.

• In the hands of a scammer, a stablecoin is a loaded gun with no safety switch.

This is just the start.

🧨 Dead Drop Summary (Expanded)

• ACH's slowness created accidental protection: time to intervene, reverse, investigate

• Stablecoins remove that time buffer, giving criminals the same speed as legitimate users—but without the same friction

• The GENIUS Act focuses on who issues stablecoins—not how they’re used, leaving the backdoor wide open

• Surveillance-by-design may catch bad guys—but it may also create new forms of abuse, manipulation, and coercion

This isn’t just a financial update.
It’s a total rewrite of how crime, money, and power interact.

🛠 What the Fraudfather Recommends

If you build or protect systems:

• Assume every stablecoin is a potential fraud rail

• Monitor cross-chain behavior—not just wallet addresses

• Educate your teams: DeFi is now default infrastructure, not a niche

• Prepare for “instant-on” fraud—where your SOC team is always 5 minutes too late

If you're a reader navigating this world:

• Learn how wallets, bridges, and mixers actually work (Our Crypto 101 Guide is Coming)

• Understand the difference between a stablecoin and a Ponzi with branding

• Watch for financial products that look like banks—but aren’t covered like banks

📡 Next week in the Dead Drop stablecoin series:
“How Instant Money Changes Crime Forever”

 📞 Book a Call with the Fraudfather! to fortify your financial defenses today!

With the Fraudfather’s Dead Drop, we train you to be dangerous.

Strategic. Persuasive. Lethal with a spreadsheet.

But this? ⬇️
This is a different breed of dangerous.

MACV-SOG.
No name. No rules. No leash.
Authorized to carry cash, guns, and secrets across borders—and disappear without explanation.

You’ll get good.
Hell, you might even get scary.

But you will never be "direct orders from the President, do not detain, do not question" dangerous.

And that’s okay.
They already did it for you.

Intel is only as powerful as the minds that wield it. If this Dead Drop sharpened yours, pass it along—because knowledge hoarded is power wasted. Share it now. 🚀📡

“To commit is to be captured.”

You’ve heard it before: Power loves myy. But what no one tells you is how the illusion of loyalty is a more potent weapon than loyalty itself.

So this week, we’re going deeper than ever into a strategy used by monarchs, mercenaries, and manipulators to reshape history without ever drawing their sword:

The Art of Never Committing.

👑 The Sisters Who Shared a Crown—And a King

Two sisters. One royal bed. One king.

Mary Boleyn slept with Henry VIII first. She bore his children. She did as she was told.

Anne Boleyn? She refused to.

She withheld—her affection, her allegiance, and above all, her commitment.

And in doing so, she bent the will of a monarch and reoriented the fate of a nation.

Mary became a footnote. Anne became Queen.

But the real masterclass came next.

Her daughter: Elizabeth I.

She would take the power her mother earned—and codify it into psychological warfare.

👑 The Virgin Queen’s Crown of Control

Elizabeth I is remembered as The Virgin Queen. Not because she lacked suitors. But because she never let herself be had.

Sir Walter Raleigh. The Duke of Anjou. Kings of Spain, Sweden, Austria—all lined up to win her hand. All failed.

Why?

Because commitment would have reduced her from sovereign to spouse. From ruler to partner. From enigma to possession.

Instead, Elizabeth became the gravitational center of every court in Europe.

She gave attention without attachment.

She gave hope without harvest.

She gave affection without future.

And in doing so, she kept nations orbiting her.

🎭 The Psychology of Aloofness

Let’s get tactical.

People don’t chase what they own. They chase what stays just out of reach.

This is as true in geopolitics as it is in business, dating, or deal-making.

When you refuse to commit, people try harder.

They overinvest. They overinterpret. They overreach.

And when they do? You win.

This is the power of the unclaimed prize.

The strategist who says yes to no party—but makes every party believe they’re close.

🪞 How to Deploy This Tactic in Modern Life

You don’t need a throne. You need leverage.

Here’s how to turn strategic aloofness into power:

1. In Work:

Say less than you know. Play long. Respond to recruiters with curiosity, not commitment. “I’m exploring options” is more powerful than “I’m looking.” Let them pitch you.

2. In Negotiation:

Silence is leverage. Don’t name your number. Don’t chase their offer. Create space. Let them wonder.

And in the gap between what they offer—and what you accept—you gain control.

3. In Relationships:

Mystery seduces more than certainty. Don’t rush labels. Don’t rush plans. Be warm—but not welded.

The person who doesn’t need love commands more of it.

4. In Alliances:

If two competing groups want your support? Smile at both. Speak truth to neither.

Let each court you. Let each expose their strategies.

And when the dust settles? You choose power—not proximity.

5. In Social Strategy:

When your name gets floated? Be gracious. Be vague. Let your reputation precede you. Let your availability remain unclear.

The less they can pin you down, the more they’ll project power onto you.

🧨 What Commitment Really Costs

Commitment isn’t virtue.

It’s visibility. It’s vulnerability.

The moment you declare a side, a cause, or a soulmate—you shrink your optionality.

You invite scrutiny. You signal your price.

And worst of all? You lock yourself into a game you may no longer control.

Commitment is what they want from you.

Independence is how you keep the power.

🔥 Closing Hack: Be the Prize, Not the Pawn

Elizabeth played kings like chess pieces.

She wasn’t just the Queen of England. She was the Queen of Perception.

A woman who ruled for 44 years, won global admiration, and died without ever kneeling to any man—not even in love.

Want to be powerful?

Be desired. Be pursued. Be unpossessed.

Because the moment you’re owned, you’re out of moves.

Stay dangerous. Stay uncommitted.

—End transmission. 🧠🕶️

 📞 Book a Call with the Fraudfather! to fortify your defenses today!

Q: The Government Issued a Fraudulent PPP Loan in My Name—Now They're Seizing My Tax Refund!

I recently discovered, to my disbelief, that the federal government seized my state tax refund in April 2025 to repay a PPP loan taken out fraudulently in my name back in April 2021. I had zero knowledge of this loan—no notifications, no warnings, and shockingly, nothing ever appeared on any of my credit reports.

I'm furious. How can the government issue loans without integrating basic credit checks or reporting mechanisms? Their incompetence and lack of due diligence have suddenly become my nightmare, and now I'm stuck dealing with the consequences of identity theft and bureaucratic ineptitude.

Has anyone else experienced similar fraud with PPP loans? How did you handle this, and what steps should I immediately take to fight back and clear this fraudulent debt?

💼 A: From The Desk of The Fraudfather:

First off, I’m sorry this happened. But I’m not surprised.

The government sprayed $800 billion into the economy without even checking IDs—and now you are paying for their lack of guardrails.

Here’s how you go from victim to offensive operator:

🔎 Step 1: Build Your Dossier

Treat this like a federal case. Because it is.

• Document the Timeline: Discovery, refund seizure, loan origination.

• Pull ALL Credit Reports: Equifax, TransUnion, Experian.

• FOIA the SBA: Demand all records tied to your SSN or name.

• IRS Transcripts: Request Wage & Income, Account Transcript, and Offset Notices via IRS.gov or Form 4506-T.

⚖️ Step 2: Use Their Tools Against Them

They used the Treasury Offset Program (TOP)? You weaponize it.

• Dispute the Offset: Contact the Bureau of Fiscal Service directly.

• IRS Form 843: File for refund/abatement. Mark it identity theft-related.

• Demand the Debt Paperwork: Make them show the instrument used to steal from you. No proof? No debt.

🛡️ Step 3: Lock Down Your Identity

Shut the back doors they came through.

• File IRS Form 14039: Identity Theft Affidavit—non-negotiable.

• Police Report: It builds your case file, even if they shrug it off.

• Freeze Your Credit: All bureaus. Set fraud alerts.

• Lock SSA & USPS: They love stealing mail and benefits.

• Create a Login.gov and ID.me Account

📬 Step 4: Make the SBA Squirm

The SBA approved that loan? Time to hand them their homework back.

• Write the SBA OIG: Physical letter. No email. Include:

  • ID Theft Affidavit

  • FOIA request confirmation

  • Timeline of fraud

  • Credit reports showing no PPP loans

• File SBA Affidavit of Identity Theft

• CC Your Congressperson: Name-drop. It lights fires.

🕵️‍♂️ Step 5: Track the Fraudster

Use OSINT like a pro.

• SBA PPP Database: Search your name. Variations. ZIP codes.

• Look Up the Business: DBA in your name? Is it real or dissolved?

• Find the Lender: Banks leave a trail. So do crooks.

Now you’ve got something the feds don’t: A suspect. A lender. A legal angle.

🎯 Final Word:

This isn’t just fraud. It’s failure—of systems, due diligence, and digital identity.

But you don’t need to wait for justice. You build the file. You rattle the cage.
And if you’re smart—you let your story burn so hot, someone in power feels it.

We’re all watching the government sweep these cases under the rug.

Don’t let yours be one of them.

—The Fraudfather