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The laminated receipt that broke a fraud network
The laminated receipt that broke a fraud network
On a rural snowbank at 4:52 a.m., county road grader operator Sharon Duncan found a Western Union receipt laminated in a clear badge-holder sleeve, showing $9,400 wired to Lagos. The receipt bore the name and address of Ross Hicks, a 54-year-old parts estimator from Millhaven. That single act of preservation-someone had made a throwaway transaction permanent-would unravel a coordinated fraud operation that had extracted $31,000 from Ross over nine months.
In this episode, we follow how Ross's meticulous documentation of his conversations with…
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