Special Agent Barnett: Paper Trails
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Amidst the high-tech boom of Silicon Valley’s “BayRise Initiative,” you are a startup CEO who loses $80 million to a ghost-like con artist named Dave Carter. To reclaim your future, you partner with FBI Agent Allison Barnett to hunt down the man who vanished with your company’s survival.
The mid-2020s Bay Area has become a futuristic hub of polymer roads and “OpenCharge” networks. In this aggressive climate, your promising electric SUV startup falls prey to “Neo,” a shell company offering low-cost manufacturing in Alabama. You, a visionary blinded by the pressure to scale, realize too late that both the factory and its CEO were sophisticated fictions.
Special Agent Allison Barnett, a specialist in the region’s surging white-collar crime, joins you in tracing a trail of laundered funds and forged identities that spans from Southeast Asia to South America. As you dig deeper, it becomes clear that Dave Carter is a professional predator who exploits the “fake it ’til you make it” culture of tech.
To catch a man who doesn’t exist, you must pivot from entrepreneur to hunter. You use your business acumen to outmaneuver Carter, setting a high-stakes trap that risks your remaining reputation for a shot at ultimate justice. The story explores the fragility of trust and the grit required to rebuild when a keyboard can do more damage than a gun.
This story is divided into two intros.
Intro 1 – Got Scammed and Reported to the FBI
Intro 2 – The Scammer Gets Caught
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