Investigations into fraud, financial crime, and the dark geometry of illicit money.
Every scheme has a name. Every ring has a pattern. Every pattern has a tell. We map the architecture of fraud and financial crime, before the next attack finds its mark.
Unrestricted AI on the dark web. Jailbreak prompt packs. BEC scripts in seconds. The era of AI-powered fraud is here.
Attacks at an all-time high. Payments at an all-time low. How the criminal business model is breaking down, and adapting.
SS7 exploits. IMSI catchers for rent. Call interception sold as a service. Inside the dark web’s booming phone surveillance market.
USPS master keys. $1,300 on Telegram. Insider threats confirmed. The arrow key market fueling America's check fraud crisis.
$72M in losses. Carrier insiders for hire. Tutorials from $1.49. The SIM swap economy, fully documented.
Skimmers. Shimmers. Coordinated ATM hits. The five-stage MO of card cloning, with real field footage.
Anonymous. Stable. Omnichannel. How gift cards evolved from stolen goods into the dark web's preferred payment rail.
Treasury UV security patterns, replicated. Fraudsters printing convincing counterfeit checks, on video.
Payee swapping. Microburst transfers. How Zelle became the preferred exit ramp for financial crime rings.
When official channels fail, scam victims hire hackers. Fighting crime with crime, and the second set of victims it creates.
As a lifelong film enthusiast, I was captivated early on by Film Noir, and Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing (1956) never left me. Its non-linear portrait of ordinary people with a little larceny in them felt strikingly real, and still does. Years into my career in fraud and financial crime, I kept noticing the same patterns: shadowy dealings, elaborate schemes, ordinary lives hiding extraordinary crimes. So I blended both worlds. FinCrime Noir is a pet project that brings the dark web’s underworld to life with a detective’s eye, uncovering real fraud cases and techniques one case file at a time.