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Consumers Lost $10 Billion to Fraud in 2023
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Consumers Lost $10 Billion to Fraud in 2023 is a cinematic, Shawshank-style true-crime drama inspired by real events. Told through the quiet humanity of its characters, it explores America’s largest financial deception of the digital age — the year when ordinary trust became a global currency for exploitation. The story follows Agent Lena Cruz, a determined FBI investigator unraveling the invisible web of international cyber-fraud; Harold Benton, a retired man who loses his savings to a phishing scam; Erica, a young woman deceived by an online romance investor; and Sophea, a trafficked worker trapped inside the scam network overseas.
Across three chapters — The Promise of Easy Money, The Web and the Wolves, and The Reckoning — their lives intertwine in a relentless pursuit of truth and redemption. From suburban kitchens to global fraud compounds, the story moves like a film: intimate, visual, and deeply human. It’s not just about money lost, but about trust betrayed and reclaimed, as America confronts the dark cost of belief in the digital age.
307 episodes
Manage episode 518649289 series 3656799
Consumers Lost $10 Billion to Fraud in 2023 is a cinematic, Shawshank-style true-crime drama inspired by real events. Told through the quiet humanity of its characters, it explores America’s largest financial deception of the digital age — the year when ordinary trust became a global currency for exploitation. The story follows Agent Lena Cruz, a determined FBI investigator unraveling the invisible web of international cyber-fraud; Harold Benton, a retired man who loses his savings to a phishing scam; Erica, a young woman deceived by an online romance investor; and Sophea, a trafficked worker trapped inside the scam network overseas.
Across three chapters — The Promise of Easy Money, The Web and the Wolves, and The Reckoning — their lives intertwine in a relentless pursuit of truth and redemption. From suburban kitchens to global fraud compounds, the story moves like a film: intimate, visual, and deeply human. It’s not just about money lost, but about trust betrayed and reclaimed, as America confronts the dark cost of belief in the digital age.
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