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What Is Inheritance Hijacking? So, what is inheritance hijacking? Well, it's exactly what it sounds like. If you have somebody in your life that's close to you maybe a relative who has become deceased, or even if they're not deceased, maybe they're in extended care, hospice, or some type of retirement home and you are entitled to assets from that person based on their will, their directives, or their wishes, many times you're going [...]

Third-Party Restitution for Fraud Victims If you've been watching our channel for a while, you know that one of the most common suggestions we have for fraud victims is to look at third-party restitution. Many times the scammer or fraudster that took your money may not have all of it to give you back. Sometimes a recovery of that money requires that you look at third parties. Many of the biggest recoveries we've done [...]

Bank Liability in Ponzi Scheme Cases Here's another example of where a major bank had to pay back a customer who lost money in a Ponzi scheme. You may not think the bank is liable, but if the bank allowed a scammer to access your money by not even following their own procedures, you may have some liability claims against that bank. Now granted, the bank is not the one who stole your money. [...]

Introduction to the Zelle Payment Fraud Issue Okay, if you've been a viewer of this channel for long enough, you know we've been **tracking** this whole Zelle payment fraud scam issue. Zelle **is** a payment system that came out probably about seven or eight years ago to be a competitor to things like PayPal, Cash App, or Venmo. It was **created** by several large banks Wells Fargo, JP Morgan, and so on. What they [...]

Online Fraud and Scams: Protecting Yourself and Your Loved Ones Today we're going to talk about online fraud and scams, especially those targeting the elderly and older people. Even if you're not elderly or an older person, the fraud schemes being perpetrated on large volumes of people in the United States have become an epidemic, and it's now become an enterprise-level business for these scammers overseas. We're going to talk about how to prevent [...]

Corporate Fraud and Embezzlement Here's another troubling case of corporate fraud and embezzlement where a bookkeeper at a company, a relatively small company, stole over a million dollars from their employer over the course of three or four years. There are a lot of takeaways from this, not only the fact that the person stole money and they could have been caught earlier, but what are the ripple effects of this? What effects does [...]

Fraud and Investigations A lot of you write in asking about where you can get information on fraud and investigations if you want to do some of this work yourself. I recommend an excellent book to you it's called *Anatomy of a Fraud*, and it's written by a very highly experienced and qualified fraud examiner named Steven Penno. Steven and I have been colleagues in the past. He is a very experienced and highly [...]