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.”
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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.
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Goliath Around The World
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[Verse 1]
Christopher sat beneath the lights,
Telling Channel 9 his side,
Darlene Jones asked the questions,
And the cameras opened wide.
Then came a number, nice and certain,
Like there wasn't room for doubt,
“99.9% of our investors are US,”
Well, the paperwork came out.
[Pre-Chorus]
Pack your bags, grab your passport,
Looks like Goliath travelled well,
From the beaches to the big cities,
There's another story federal records tell.
[Chorus]
Goliath went around the world,
Sprinkling the love from shore to shore,
Australia, Canada, Brazil,
Turns out America had company after all.
Panama, Spain, the UK too,
Germany and Denmark made the view,
Cambodia to the UAE —
279 foreign victims say
Goliath went around the world.
[Verse 2]
One thousand two hundred and thirty,
Victims counted in the States,
But another two-seven-nine
Were waiting beyond the gates.
Ten countries named in court filings,
Victims scattered overseas,
Some still waiting for notification
While governments grant authority.
So maybe this wasn't quite the picture
That we heard on Channel 9,
Because eighteen-and-a-half percent
Looks nothing like point-one-nine.
[Chorus]
Goliath went around the world,
Sprinkling the love from shore to shore,
Australia, Canada, Brazil,
Turns out America had company after all.
Panama, Spain, the UK too,
Germany and Denmark made the view,
Cambodia to the UAE —
279 foreign victims say
Goliath went around the world.
[Bridge]
Maybe pack the sunscreen,
Maybe book a flight,
Maybe check the federal filings
Before you tell the world you're right.
Because numbers have a funny way
Of surviving when stories fall,
And when the government counts the victims,
The map can tell us more than words at all.
[Breakdown]
Ninety-nine point nine?
That's what Christopher said.
But the court record now shows victims
Far beyond the Stars and Stripes instead.
1,509 identified.
279 overseas.
Not rumours.
Not promoters.
Numbers filed with the court for everyone to see.
[Final Chorus]
Goliath went around the world,
Sprinkling the love from shore to shore,
Australia, Canada, Brazil,
And apparently there were plenty more.
Panama, Spain, the UK too,
Germany and Denmark made the view,
Cambodia to the UAE —
279 foreign victims say
This wasn't just the USA.
Goliath went around the world,
While Christopher told us otherwise,
Now every pin upon that map
Leaves another question behind.
[Outro]
“99.9% are US”...
That was the story then.
But federal records drew a bigger map.
So let's count them again.
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