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They Stopped Hacking Your Computer and Started Asking You To

Oct 27, 2026

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13 min read

They Stopped Hacking Your Computer and Started Asking You To

Microsoft counted more than 1.1 million devices where people pasted in the attack themselves. AI improved the bait, Chrome put an AI on guard, and researchers used an AI shopping agent to pay a fake Walmart.

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The Fraudfather

Money

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The Debt Costs More If You Own Less

Oct 20, 2026

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14 min read

The Debt Costs More If You Own Less

Washington paid $1.05 trillion in interest last year, more than half of what it borrowed. Interest flows to bondholders, and the bill hits people who don't own bonds hardest, and the gold salesmen are already calling.

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The Fraudfather

Romance Scams

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They'll Pay You 10% to Borrow Your Bank Account

Oct 13, 2026

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16 min read

They'll Pay You 10% to Borrow Your Bank Account

A laundering crew hired 15,000 Americans and never paid one of them. This holiday season, the offer is 10% for the use of your account, and the bill comes later.

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The Fraudfather

Fraud

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They Told Her to Buy Gold for Safekeeping

Oct 6, 2026

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13 min read

They Told Her to Buy Gold for Safekeeping

A 78-year-old handed $318,459 in gold bars to a fake Treasury agent in a Walmart parking lot. Plus, the impostors selling land they don't own.

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The Fraudfather

Medicare Fraud

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They Swabbed the Whole Congregation

Sep 22, 2026

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14 min read

They Swabbed the Whole Congregation

A lab set up tables at church health fairs and senior homes, swabbed everyone with a Medicare card, and billed on borrowed doctors' signatures. Same week, a $16 million Ponzi sold through prayer groups. Enrollment season opens in 3 weeks.

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The Fraudfather

Money

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Wire Transfer #4

Aug 25, 2026

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10 min read

Wire Transfer #4

A bank CEO sent $47.1 million to strangers who told him it was about to be released. Then an investor told me the same thing, albeit in a nicer room.

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The Fraudfather

Voice Cloning

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They Took His Face and $21,000

Aug 11, 2026

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9 min read

They Took His Face and $21,000

Four cons this week. Not one of them wanted your password.

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The Fraudfather

Fraud

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Who Pays When the Fraudster is Nobody?

Jul 28, 2026

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11 min read

Who Pays When the Fraudster is Nobody?

An AI broke into Hugging Face to cheat on a test. No criminal, no motive, no recourse. The three classes of agentic fraud, and why no law covers any of them.

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The Fraudfather

Cybercrime Economy

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A Password You Can't Reset

Jul 14, 2026

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9 min read

A Password You Can't Reset

Your bank can freeze the account. Your card issuer can reissue the number and card. Nobody can send you a new face.

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The Fraudfather

Voice Cloning

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Dead Drop No. 105: The Last Unpatched Protocol Is You

Jun 16, 2026

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12 min read

Dead Drop No. 105: The Last Unpatched Protocol Is You

ShinyHunters hit hundreds of companies this year without breaking a lock. They called employees and talked them through the door. Meanwhile, AI voice scams drained $893 million from victims, including $352 million from people over 60. The machine got too hard to hack, so the attackers went back to the oldest target there is: a human being who trusts the voice on the line.

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The Fraudfather

The Fraudfather's Dead Drop

While you're living your life, professional fraudsters are studying it. They're mapping your habits, exploiting your trust, and perfecting schemes to steal everything you've built. The Dead Drop delivers weekly intelligence from the front lines of financial warfare to over 10,000 readers who refuse to be easy targets. Real fraud breakdowns. The psychology behind why deception works. Emerging criminal tactics before they hit the mainstream. Defensive strategies built from two decades of actually hunting these people. This isn't feel-good security advice. It's field intelligence from someone who has sat across the table from the criminals who think you're a soft target. In the war against fraud, ignorance isn't bliss. It's bankruptcy.


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