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. Jose Santana, Lead Technical Consultant, oversees the practitioner team executing the technical work. Engagements are confidential, NDA-protected, and structured to begin within 48 hours of the consultation. Pricing is hourly at $550 per hour with optional fixed-fee tracks for well-bounded scope, and 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.
What we will not do
- Run a single automated scan and email a one-line result.
- Promise fund recovery. The bank, counsel, and law enforcement control recovery; we produce the evidentiary record that makes recovery materially harder for institutions to dismiss.
- Take cases where simpler steps (bank fraud claim, IC3 filing, APS report) would resolve the situation. We will tell you and decline.
- Bill for work that was not scoped or approved in writing.
- Moralize, judge, or characterize the targeted person. Sophisticated criminals run these operations. The shame is theirs.
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.
Related Witness services
- Romance scam investigation — high overlap with elder-targeted exploitation.
- Identity theft investigation — when the elder fraud chain includes credit-line fraud or synthetic identity.
- Wire fraud forensics — when funds moved by wire or BEC pretext.
- AI voice clone scam recovery — for grandparent-scam style impersonation calls.
- OSINT investigation — for persona tracing and infrastructure attribution.
- Family office fraud investigation — when the targeted person sits inside a family-office structure.
- Digital forensics in Naples, FL — local forensic engagement.
