The Signal 9/9/26 - Nobody real will ever ask you to buy gold

The gold-bar courier scam, the most expensive con running against older Americans, with individual losses routinely in the hundreds of thousand. A layered cast of fake tech support, fake bankers, and fake federal agents convinces someone their savings are in danger, walks them into buying real gold from a real dealer, and sends a courier to collect it "for safekeeping." Today: the full anatomy, the moment-by-moment tells, and the one dinner-table sentence that beats it, because this is the episode built to be played for your parents.