Fraud costs Americans more than $10 billion every year. Behind every DOJ press release and every federal indictment is a human story -- of calculated deception, institutional failure, ruined lives, and the investigators who refused to look away. ConFraud exists to tell those stories with the depth they demand.

We are a longform investigative publication. Every piece we publish runs 2,000 to 5,000 words -- narrative journalism built on court filings, PACER records, DOJ enforcement data, and original reporting. We reconstruct schemes from the inside out: how they were built, how they operated, and how they came apart. No summaries. No press release rewrites. The full story, sourced and documented.

Our team includes former federal prosecutors, ex-FBI financial crimes investigators, ethical hackers, and veteran investigative reporters. They write with the authority of people who have built cases, traced wire transfers, and sat across from defendants in interview rooms.

• // White-Collar Crime: Embezzlement, corporate fraud, insider trading, wire fraud -- the boardroom crimes prosecuted in federal court
• // Ponzi Schemes: The architects, the victims, the feeder funds, and the unraveling of multi-billion-dollar lies
• // Con Artists: Profiles of grifters, fraudsters, and confidence operators -- how they identify targets, build trust, and extract money
• // Corruption: Public corruption, bribery, kickback schemes, and betrayals of public trust from city hall to Capitol Hill
• // Cybercrime: Ransomware operations, dark web markets, cryptocurrency laundering, and the digital forensics teams hunting them
• // Cold Cases: Dormant investigations, statute-of-limitations battles, and the breakthroughs that reopen files decades later
• // Analysis: Sentencing data, prosecution trends, and the structural failures that allow fraud to persist

We source every claim. Case numbers, docket references, PACER filings, and agency databases are the foundation of our reporting -- not tips, not rumors, not secondhand accounts. We never name fraud victims without their explicit consent. We seek comment from subjects of our reporting before publication. We maintain an absolute separation between investigative reporting and opinion content.

Every story undergoes fact-checking and legal review before publication. When we get something wrong, we correct it immediately, publicly, and permanently. Read our full Editorial Standards and Corrections Policy.

Know about a fraud scheme that deserves investigation? Have documents related to an active case? Witnessed corruption that has gone unreported? Contact our investigations desk at tips@confraud.com or use our secure contact form. We protect our sources unconditionally.