Learn to hunt financial fraud — and get paid for it

If you've ever looked at a financial opportunity and thought, something here is not right — this course was built for that instinct.

Maybe you work in finance or compliance and you've seen things that made you uncomfortable. Maybe you're a retail investor who's been pitched something that felt off, or you've watched a colleague or friend get burned by a scheme that, in hindsight, had every red flag in the book. Maybe you've just followed enough financial fraud stories to notice that the same patterns keep appearing — different names, different assets, same con. Whatever brought you here, that instinct is worth developing, and the system actually rewards people who act on it.

The SEC Whistleblower Program is one of the most underused tools in financial justice. Most people either don't know it exists, don't think they qualify, or don't know how to package what they know into something the SEC can actually act on. This course closes all three gaps. We cover how the Dodd-Frank award mechanism works in plain terms, who qualifies under the rules, and exactly what a credible tip package looks like from the SEC's perspective — including how to complete Form TCR, how to work with a whistleblower attorney, and how to time and position a submission strategically.

We also spend serious time on the investigative side, because the best tips come from people who know what they're looking at. You'll learn to dissect Ponzi schemes and pump-and-dump operations using real case patterns, apply a professional fraud examiner's due-diligence checklist to any suspicious opportunity, and recognize the behavioral and financial red flags that show up before the collapse — not after. That same toolkit protects your own portfolio and makes you a sharper, more skeptical investor along the way.

And we don't skip the hard parts. Retaliation is real. Anonymity requires real effort. The legal landscape around whistleblowing has nuances that matter. We cover anti-retaliation protections under Dodd-Frank, practical OPSEC for keeping your identity protected, and how to extend your fraud-hunting beyond the SEC to the CFTC, FinCEN, and other agencies. Whether you submit one tip or build a sustainable fraud-hunting practice, you'll finish this course knowing exactly what you're doing and why.

The financial system depends, more than most people realize, on individuals who are willing to pay attention and speak up. I built this course to give those individuals every tool they need to do it well. Welcome to the hunt.