Fraudyby Nature

True crime in real time · A podcast

Our hindsight. Your foresight.

Launching November 2026

✓ Free · ✓ No spam · ✓ Unsubscribe anytime · ✓ Never sold

September 2024 Hear the night it happened 0:00 / 2:03
A detective's cork board at night. Red string ties a map pin on Chapel Hill to one on North Raleigh, surrounded by calendars, redacted documents, security-camera stills and handwritten notes.

We're not the only ones…

Exhibit · The scale of it

Reported internet crime in the United States

31 secA new complaint reaches the FBI about every 31 seconds¹
$662Reported lost every second, on average¹
~5×Reported losses in 2025 compared with 2020¹

Reported lost since you opened this page²

$0

New complaints to the FBI since you opened this page²

0 new complaints, estimated.

At the 2025 pace, a new complaint reaches the FBI about every 31 seconds: roughly 2 a minute, 115 an hour, 2,763 a day.¹

Fig. 1. Losses reported to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, by year (billions of dollars).¹
  1. FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center, 2025 IC3 Annual Report: 1,008,597 complaints and $20.877 billion in reported losses in 2025; losses by year 2020–2025. Per-second figures are our arithmetic from the annual totals.
  2. An estimate: the 2025 annual averages applied to the time this page has been open.

What's coming

  • Real People
  • Real Documents
  • Real Timelines
  • Real Consequences
  • Real Change
  • Demand Accountability
  • Deception
  • Manipulation
  • Narcissism
  • The legal system
  • Dark humor

Something Fraudy This Way Comes…

Launching November 2026. Coming soon.

✓ Free · ✓ No spam · ✓ Unsubscribe anytime · ✓ Never sold · Privacy

Stay tuned. Stay skeptical. And always keep your receipts.