Your parent or grandparent has been targeted by sophisticated criminals using engineered social-engineering frameworks, sometimes augmented with AI voice cloning of a family member's voice, sometimes laundered through romance-scam pretexts that ran for months, sometimes orchestrated by an insider with legitimate access.
Money has moved.
The bank says it cannot recover it.
The local police took a report and have not called back.
Your family is reeling and the person targeted is embarrassed and shutting down.
That is the moment we step in.
Quinnlan Varcoe, Founder and CEO, oversees every elder fraud investigation and reviews every case before findings leave the practice.
The practitioner team executes the technical work.
Engagements are confidential, NDA-protected, and structured to begin within 48 hours of the consultation.
Pricing is hourly at $400 per hour, the same standardized rate every SleuthX engagement bills at, including expert witness, with optional fixed-fee tracks for well-bounded scope.
Sliding-scale pricing is available for survivors with significant financial loss without paperwork drama.
What this is
A forensic elder financial exploitation investigation produces the documented evidentiary record that banks, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center, the FTC, civil counsel, Florida Adult Protective Services, the Florida Attorney General's Senior Protection Team, and where applicable, plaintiff trial counsel, can act on.
The investigation traces how exposure happened (data-broker leak, prior breach, romance-scam pretext, AI voice clone, insider, mail theft, telephone-impersonation chain), reconstructs the timeline of unauthorized activity across accounts and devices, identifies any ongoing criminal access, and produces a written report structured for the specific recovery and prosecution pathways that apply in your case.
Who this is for
- Adult children who just discovered their parent has been losing money for weeks or months and need help understanding the scope before confronting the situation.
- Surviving family members handling the estate of an elder relative whose final months were marked by suspicious account activity that nobody noticed in time.
- Family-office principals and trustees whose elderly clients or settlors have been targeted, where a privileged forensic investigation is needed before the matter reaches counsel or regulators.
- Florida elder-law attorneys who need a forensic partner for guardianship petitions, POA-abuse claims, exploitation litigation under FS 825.103 / 415.1111, and probate disputes where digital evidence matters.
- Caregivers and care managers in fiduciary roles who suspect exploitation by another party in the household and need an independent investigation.
How the engagement works
- Free confidential consultation by phone or video. NDA-protected. 30 to 60 minutes. Direct conversation with Quinn, the founder and CEO who oversees every engagement. We hear the situation, identify recovery and prosecution pathways, and tell you whether forensic investigation will help or whether simpler steps (bank fraud claim, IC3 filing, APS report) are the right move first.
- Scoped engagement with a written proposal and pricing. Fixed-fee where scope allows; hourly with milestone caps for open-ended cases. Sliding-scale options on the table on the first call.
- Forensic acquisition of relevant devices and account artifacts. Phones, computers, banking and brokerage account exports, email and SMS records, gift-card and wire-transfer documentation, social-media artifacts, and where consented, smart-home and home-router logs.
- Investigation and reconstruction. Source of compromise, timeline of unauthorized activity, persona analysis (where romance-scam or impersonation vectors apply), wallet and payment-rail tracing for cryptocurrency or wire flows, and identification of any ongoing access.
- Written report to court-admissible standards, structured for the specific pathways that apply: FBI IC3, FTC IdentityTheft.gov, Florida APS / AG Senior Protection Team, civil counsel, and where applicable, plaintiff trial counsel for elder-exploitation litigation.
- Coordination with bank fraud teams, law enforcement, elder-law and probate counsel, and family advocates as the family directs.
How we handle an elder fraud case
- Written scope before any work. You see a written scope covering deliverables, timeline, and price, and you approve it before we begin. You are never billed for work you did not authorize.
- We commit to findings, not outcomes. We tell you up front what the evidence can and cannot establish. Recovery, attribution, and prosecution are decided by banks, platforms, insurers, and courts. We produce the record they act on, and we put that distinction in writing.
- Every case is investigated, not just scanned. A credentialed examiner reviews every case before findings leave the practice. You get a documented investigation to court-admissible standards, not a single automated scan and a one-line answer.
- We will tell you if you do not need us. If a free or simpler step would resolve your situation, whether a police report, an IC3 filing, or a platform's own recovery flow, we point you there first.
- We never judge the person who was targeted. Sophisticated criminals run these operations with engineered scripts. The shame is theirs, not your parent's. The first call is a clinical conversation about facts, handled with respect.
Florida elder fraud is a different scale than most states
The 2025 FBI IC3 Elder Fraud Report ranked Florida second nationally for senior fraud complaints (17,147), behind only California.
The average loss per senior victim was $38,500, and over 12,400 older complainants lost more than $100,000 each.
Naples, Marco Island, and the broader SW Florida retiree corridor concentrate high-net-worth seniors at a density unmatched in the country, which has produced an organized-criminal targeting pattern specific to the geography.
A Florida-based forensic investigator who lives in the targeting environment, knows the FL state and federal pathways, and works alongside Florida elder-law counsel produces materially better case outcomes than a remote firm.
