Fraud
Money
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Jan 27, 2026
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17 min read
Buy Now, Bleed Later: How $20 Billion in Holiday Debt Just Made You a Fraud Target
While you were financing Christmas, criminals were financing their operations. Inside the BNPL trap where economic desperation meets systematic exploitation, and why embedding debt into your debit card is the fraud industry's dream come true.
Money
+3
Jan 13, 2026
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21 min read
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
Money
+4
Jan 6, 2026
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20 min read
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
Fraud
+4
Dec 30, 2025
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16 min read
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
Fraud
+2
Dec 23, 2025
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17 min read
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
Fraud
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Dec 16, 2025
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13 min read
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
Fraud
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Dec 9, 2025
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13 min read
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.
Fraud
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Dec 2, 2025
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16 min read
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.
Fraud
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Nov 25, 2025
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22 min read
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.
Money
+6
Nov 18, 2025
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19 min read
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?
Money
+4
Nov 11, 2025
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21 min read
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.
Money
+3
Nov 4, 2025
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19 min read
When Your Government Can't Answer the Phone, Scammers Will
How a $38 trillion debt spiral, 8-month benefit delays, and a government shutdown created the perfect conditions for the most successful fraud operation in American history. And why the criminals who stole half a billion dollars last year are just getting started.
Money
+4
Oct 28, 2025
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23 min read
Half of America Is Broke. The Scammers Are Ready.
How $1.21 trillion in maxed-out credit cards created the perfect hunting ground for fraud, why losses jumped 25% while you were told inflation is zero, the Chinese crime network that turned text messages into a billion-dollar empire, and what the Fed's 2026 money printing means for your survival.
Fraud
+2
Oct 21, 2025
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22 min read
Your AI Chatbot Is Wearing a Wire
How ChatGPT became law enforcement's most productive confidential informant, why Meta's scanning your AI conversations for ad targeting, and the Medicare scam keeping seniors on the phone for hours.
Money
+2
Oct 7, 2025
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21 min read
Is Unemployment In Your Future?
How sophisticated scammers are exploiting the job market crisis with fake recruiters, fraudulent interviews, and elaborate schemes designed to steal from desperate Americans searching for work.
Fraud
+2
Sep 30, 2025
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21 min read
Invisible Surveillance and Very Visible Consequences
He Went Looking for an Affair and Lost $1.4M Instead and How Invisible Tracking Technologies Feed Criminal Romance Operations
Money
+4
Sep 16, 2025
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19 min read
Fed Decision Wednesday: The Wealth Transfer Activates
How the $9.2 trillion debt crisis activates systematic wealth transfer, while scam data reveals that younger Americans are becoming prime targets; complete positioning protocols for both financial and security threats.
Fraud
+1
Aug 12, 2025
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24 min read
The Trillion-Dollar Theft Hiding in Your Tax Bill
How government officials across 47 states are systematically defrauding American homeowners through illegal property appraisals, and why the municipal bond market collapse could destroy your retirement.
Fraud
+1
Aug 5, 2025
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22 min read
The Paper Pirates: America's Fastest-Growing Crime You've Never Heard Of
Why criminals don't need to break into your home to steal it, they just walk into the county clerk's office.
Fraud
+1
Jul 28, 2025
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20 min read
The $60 Mistake That Destroys Lives
The Secret Service threat assessment playbook, college students turned money mules, and why financial desperation creates the perfect crime victims—even when they think they're the ones getting paid.
Fraud
+2
Jul 21, 2025
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19 min read
3 Doors, 2 Goats and 1 Middle-Class Crisis
The Monty Hall Paradox, Marilyn vos Savant’s public crucifixion, and the everyday math hacks that keep you from herding goats for the rest of your life.
Money
+3
Jul 7, 2025
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24 min read
The Big Beautiful Lie?
Yeah, You Will Keep Your Tips, But They Are Getting Much More...
