If you are the victim of wire fraud, don’t call the police. Don’t call the FBI. Call your local Secret Service office. Immediately.
I didn’t believe it either, but I talked to a guy that works for the Secret Service and he blew my mind:
If the money is sent overseas, the SS can stop it within the first 72 hours.
If the money remains in the US, the SS has the power to seize bank accounts and other assets without a criminal conviction.
The guy I was talking to told me about a lady that stole $850K from a small business in Texas by hacking into an email account and changing wiring instructions.
He froze her bank account without notifying the bank so she wouldn’t be tipped off, flew across the country, and knocked on the lady’s door.
He walked in the house, took a bunch of expensive jewelry and anything else he could find of value, and let her know her bank accounts are frozen and that he’ll be seizing all the money.
It took a few months for her to get convicted and go to jail, but the victim had their money back within days.
It typically needs to be at least $250K for the SS to get involved, but it’s worth a try if it’s over $100K.
These thresholds are way lower than what it’d take for the FBI to get involved.
Local police departments can’t do much in these situations because they don’t have the authority to seize assets without a conviction.
I also learned that the SS was originally started to fight financial crimes, not protect the President.
The SS was started in 1865 to combat widespread counterfeiting after the Civil War and didn’t start protecting Presidents until 1901.
Hope this helps someone!
Houston Residential List to Sale #'s:
The sale-to-list numbers are a little softer this year compared to 2024. Nothing major - just sellers giving up a bit more than they were last year.
Sale-to-list (sale price vs. final list price) is down slightly.
Sale-to-original list (sale price vs. the initial list price) is where you really see the drop, dipping into the mid-95% range.
Homes are still selling, but pricing it right upfront makes a bigger difference this year.
I skipped the United Nations General Assembly this time, it felt pointless this year.
But you can always watch last year’s speech if you feel like wasting time the way I did.
ELON: I’M SPENDING MANY BRAIN CYCLES ON SCALING OPTIMUS PRODUCTION
“We're finalizing the design of Optimus version 3.
That really is going to be a very remarkable robot.
It will have essentially the manual dexterity of a human, meaning a very complex hand, an AI mind that can navigate and comprehend reality, and it will be made in very high volume.
If you see any other robotics company, they're missing those three things.
Those are the three really hard things.
I spend actually at this point more of my mental cycles than anything else, any other single thing, on Optimus.
That's solving for real-world AI.
There is no supply chain that exists for humanoid robots, so we have to recreate it from scratch, which requires doing a lot of vertical integration.”
Source: Interview at the All-In Summit, September 10, 2025
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