DANNY DE HEK
Scammers rely on silence. We make noise.
Welcome to the Avengers Anti-Fraud Alliance, led by Danny de Hek, a New Zealand investigative journalist whose work exposing scams, Ponzi schemes, MLMs and financial fraud has been featured by The New York Times, Bloomberg, The Guardian, ABC Australia, RNZ and others.
This podcast takes you inside real investigations.
We follow the money, identify the people behind fraudulent operations, examine corporate records, court documents, blockchain transactions, marketing material, leaked communications and digital evidence — then put what we find into the public record.
Some investigations begin with a victim contacting me. Others start with an anonymous tip, a suspicious Zoom meeting, a cryptocurrency wallet, a court filing, or an Avenger somewhere in the world saying: “Danny, you need to look at this.”
The Avengers Anti-Fraud Alliance brings together researchers, whistleblowers, victims and ordinary people who are tired of watching scammers operate without scrutiny.
Patreon helps fund that work and gives supporters a closer look behind the investigations — including updates, evidence, developing stories and material that doesn't always fit into a YouTube video.
I don't accept payment to remove investigations. I don't sell reputation management. And when someone I investigate disagrees with my reporting, I give them the opportunity to respond.
The objective is simple:
Investigate. Analyse. Expose. Protect.
If you're a victim, whistleblower or you've discovered something that deserves investigating, get in touch.
Scams thrive in darkness. The Avengers turn on the lights.
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Think Tank Topic: Crisis Management - Experiences, Problems and Solutions
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ELITE : SIX Think Tank meetings are discussed over Zoom with our members every Friday at 9:30am.
Facilitated by DANNY : DE HEK meetings are recorded for our Podcast, we’ve been doing this since COVID-19 if you’re interested in joining in with us check out our website at www.elite6.co.nz
EXPERIENCES
- Get into other people's heads - understand their energy, challenges and be practical about offering solutions.
- Your ability to react positively to imposed change will keep your business ahead of the pack.
- Crisis is an opportunity revaluate, reassess & react positively.
- Identify what the crisis actually is and how it may impact on yourself or business
- Look to work with like minded people or collaborate with a business that tells with yours
- Look at tools to help your business (e.g. VR software to create immersive 360 tours etc.)
- Be able to work anywhere
- Look to take your business online
- Diversify our businesses
- Learn new ways of communicating with clients
- Stay positive, mindset is key
- Bugger, Bugger
PROBLEMS
- A crisis will highlight your system deficiencies.
- Meeting peoples expectations
- Build redundancy into your systems
- Health (stress, diet etc.)
- Realised you didn’t have a plan when a crisis hit
- Earthquakes - lack of planning
- Money
- Proper fire equipment on hand
SOLUTIONS
- Apply for funds, grants
- Back up your data in a few places
- Networking asking others for help and guidance!
- Business Continuity Planning. What is important and how can you protect it?
- Understand client expectations then exceed them
- Bookmark sources of reliable, current and simple information.
- NAS could be the offline online file back up solution network-attached storage
TAKES AWAY
- Have an emergency kit with crisis information in it for when a crisis happens
- Be prepared for every eventuality
- Know what you can offer and be prepared to clearly offer this.
NEXT WEEKS TOPIC - BECOMING AN AUTHORITY IN YOUR FIELD
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