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The Heart Surgeon’s Secret for Healthy Blood Pressure

Famed heart surgeon reveals what he recommends to patients who want to keep their blood pressure in the healthy zone.

By Nancy Reynolds
Reporting for Newsmax Health

Palm Beach Gardens, FL — “There’s a hidden reason why many people are still struggling with their blood pressure. And it may not be due to poor diet, lack of exercise, or too much salt.”

When a famed heart surgeon utters these words, it’s worth sitting up and taking notice.

That’s why we recently sat down with Dr. Chauncey Crandall to learn more about this missing link to healthy blood pressure. Dr. Crandall is chief of the Cardiac Transplant Program at the world-renowned Palm Beach Cardiovascular Clinic in Palm Beach Gardens, FL.

Dr. Crandall is also author of the No. 1 Amazon best-seller The Simple Heart Cure, and a frequent guest on national television and radio programs.

“As a medical doctor and natural health advocate, I credit my own robust health to a balanced approach, including a good diet, daily exercise, and targeted supplements,” Dr. Crandall said.

Why does Dr. Crandall feel so strongly about targeted supplements? I’ll tell you why in a moment. But first, let me tell you why you can no longer ignore this deadly health problem …

Silently Wreaking Havoc

If you’ve been told your blood pressure is higher than normal, then you are in serious danger.

Unhealthy blood pressure is called the “silent killer.” That’s because it quietly sneaks up on you … damaging your blood vessels without causing pain … until it’s too late.

Then disaster strikes in the form of a weakened heart, kidney problems, or perhaps circulation problems that can wreak havoc on your heart, brain, and eyes. 1

If left unchecked, unhealthy blood pressure, even in its mildest form, can lead to premature aging and serious brain damage.

What’s more, half of all people who have been diagnosed with unhealthy blood pressure still don’t have it under control.

On a Mission to Help People With Stubborn Blood Pressure Problems

“There are literally millions of Americans who are still struggling with their blood pressure,” Dr. Crandall said. “Many people are already trying diets, exercise, maybe even taking medications. Yet they are still not getting their blood pressure to where it should be.”

But there is a solution. “There are targeted nutrients that can help your body manage blood pressure naturally. But many people still don’t know about the extensive research behind them.

“That’s why I’ve made it my mission to get this information out to people,” Dr. Crandall said. He then revealed …

The Nobel Prize-Winning Discovery That Can Finally Give You Hope

In 1998, three scientists stepped to the podium in Stockholm, Sweden, and accepted the Nobel Prize for Medicine.2

They had discovered a special molecule in the human body called nitric oxide. It was soon dubbed the “miracle molecule” for its amazing effect on blood pressure and circulation.

Nitric oxide helps expand your blood vessels so more blood, oxygen, and nutrients can flow to every tiny capillary in your body. Doctors call this “vasodilation” but you’ll call it amazing. Hundreds of studies show nitric oxide helps:

  • Relax arteries so they expand easily, to promote optimal blood flow and healthy blood pressure.
  • Maintain soft, elastic blood vessels that support good cardiovascular health.
  • Support a strong immune system. Especially important during cold and flu season.
  • Promote peak performance in the bedroom. Nitric oxide plays a role in healthy erectile function.
  • Boost energy. Athletes use nitric oxide to get more oxygen flowing to their muscles. Weightlifters use it to get a serious boost!

When your circulation is working well … just about every part of your body works better!

But you can’t just go out and consume nitric oxide to get all these good things. Instead, your body produces a “precursor” — an amino acid called L-arginine — that kick-starts this process.

L-arginine is converted into nitric oxide, which helps dilate your blood vessels. This, in turn, means your heart doesn’t have to pump as hard, which promotes normal blood pressure and circulation.

Regular artery vs Narrow artery

Vanishing L-arginine

The trouble is, as you get older, your body produces less and less L-arginine. In fact, your L-arginine levels start to drop off as early as age 30. By the time you’re 50, chances are you’re not getting enough L-arginine to keep your arteries relaxed and flexible. And that’s not all …

The Big Problem With L-arginine

Ever since the discovery of nitric oxide and L-arginine, companies have rushed to market L-arginine supplements.

But if you’ve ever tried one, chances are you’ve been disappointed with the results. Why? Because your body absorbs and metabolizes L-arginine very quickly. So you’d have to take it all day long just to get results. That is, until now …

Now scientists have created a sustained release form of L-arginine that gives you a constant flow of L-arginine all day long. It releases artery-relaxing L-arginine continually for 24 hours.

In fact, when researchers tested this new form of L-arginine … it lived up to its promise. They noticed significant support for cardiovascular health in nearly seven out of 10 patients. And they noticed the difference in as little as seven days.3

So if you want to maintain normal blood pressure and get all the benefits of L-arginine … sustained-release L-arginine should be at the top of your list.

That’s why Dr. Crandall recently teamed up with experts at Medix Select to create an advanced blood pressure formula with 3 grams of sustained-release L-arginine called Ventricore™.

But he didn’t stop there … because there are other nutrients that support healthy blood pressure and circulation. They include:

Regular artery vs Narrow artery

I’ll tell you more about these nutrients in a moment. But first … Dr. Crandall believes so strongly in Ventricore that he has asked Medix Select to reserve a trial supply just for you to try — at no risk.

This way you can try Ventricore for yourself — and see the effect it has on your blood pressure and healthy circulation.

That is almost a $40 value that you can get for just $4.95 to help cover shipping and handling. If you like Ventricore, simply do nothing and you will receive it at over 33% off the regular price through our convenient Smart Ship Program — only $26.63 a bottle.

Tell us where to send your bottle of Ventricore and we’ll rush it out to you!

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About Dr. Chauncey Crandall 

Dr. Chauncey W. Crandall, M.D., F.A.C.C., is chief of the Cardiac Transplant Program at the world-renowned Palm Beach Cardiovascular Clinic in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., where he practices interventional, vascular, and transplant cardiology. He is the author of the Amazon best-seller The Simple Heart Cure, and makes frequent guest appearances as a heart expert on national television and radio programs. He also lectures regularly, both nationally and internationally, about preventive cardiology, cardiology healthcare of the elderly, healing, interventional cardiology, and heart transplants. Dr. Crandall received his post-graduate training at Yale University School of Medicine, where he also completed three years of research in the Cardiovascular Surgery Division.

What About the 5 Other Ingredients in Ventricore?

Time-released L-arginine is a good start for healthy blood pressure. But when you combine it with a few other circulation-boosting nutrients …

. . . that’s when you REALLY have a chance to ”move the needle” at your next check-up! That’s why Dr. Crandall decided to include these five other ingredients in Ventricore™.

Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) — For Combating Free Radicals

Your body is under constant assault from pollution, toxins, harmful chemicals in food, and even waste products from normal metabolism. All these can lead to a build-up of nasty free radicals that can damage your cells.

That’s why you need to neutralize free radicals as fast as possible. One of the best ways is with an antioxidant called alpha lipoic acid or ALA.

ALA helps neutralize free radicals. It also helps your body recycle more of your master antioxidant, glutathione.5 And by the way … glutathione plays a role in your body’s ability to use nitric oxide for optimal blood flow.6

Folic Acid — To Keep Your Homocysteine Levels in Check

You’ve probably heard of homocysteine. It’s one of the things your doctor checks on your regular blood tests. Homocysteine is a marker for inflammation that is associated with impaired heart health.

Researchers have found that a B vitamin — folic acid — supports a better balance of homocysteine in your body. And folic acid works especially well when it’s combined with another B vitamin …

Vitamin B12 — To Get More Oxygen-Rich Blood to Every Cell in Your Body

Like folic acid, vitamin B-12 also helps balance your levels of homocysteine.

B12 is vital for healthy red blood cells as well. Increasing your red blood cells can boost the amount of oxygen that gets to your heart and muscles for more energy.

B12 also enhances the ability of your cells to use nitric oxide generated by L-arginine.7 And it protects the delicate lining around your nerves, which plays a role in regulating your blood pressure.

But as we get older, we have a harder time absorbing B12 from our food. In fact, nearly two out of five Americans might not be getting enough B12.8

Vitamin C — To Support Your Ability to Release Nitric Oxide

Like ALA, vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant that fights free radicals. It also helps support your blood vessels’ ability to release nitric oxide, to promote blood flow and support healthy blood pressure.

A study of young adult women found that those with the highest levels of vitamin C tended to have healthier blood pressure levels.

In fact, a review of 29 different studies and 1,400 patients by researchers at Johns Hopkins University shows that vitamin C can have a clear effect on supporting healthy blood pressure.

Vitamin D — The Overlooked Vitamin for a Healthy Heart

Scientists now realize that vitamin D — yes, the sunshine vitamin! — plays a much bigger role in maintaining heart health than previously thought.

For example, a study by Emory University looked at people with low levels of vitamin D. Researchers found that the lower your vitamin D, the less your blood vessels are able to relax.

Vitamin D also plays a role in bone health, immune function, inflammatory response, and energy.

Despite all this, most Americans still don’t get anywhere near the amount of vitamin D they should.9 That’s true even down in sunny Florida, where many of Dr. Crandall’s patients live.

‘The Targeted Blood Pressure Supplement I Trust More Than Any Other’

Dr. Crandall looked at many alternatives when it came to blood pressure supplements. He has yet to find one that matches the strategic blend of L-arginine, folic acid, alpha lipoic acid (ALA), vitamin B12, vitamin C, and vitamin D found in Ventricore.

He wanted to create a formula that covers all the bases when it comes to keeping your arteries healthy and supporting healthy circulation. And he wanted to make it affordable, too.

That’s why he recommends Ventricore to everyone who wants to help maintain normal blood pressure — and that includes just about everyone over 40.

Order Your Risk-Free Trial Bottle and Start Feeling Better Sooner

So what’s stopping you? Especially when you can try Ventricore for nothing more than a small shipping charge?

You deserve the peace of mind that you are doing something smart and positive for your blood pressure and your heart.

That’s why I want to make sure you get a bottle to try for yourself. And please remember …

Even a Small Change inYour Blood Pressure CanMake a BIG Difference!

Studies show that even a small improvement in your blood pressure can significantly reduce your risk of a serious heart or brain disaster.10 So why not take this small step today? You have so much to gain.

Imagine not having to worry about your blood pressure and circulation any longer …

Imagine feeling energized and alert again … able to tackle anything you want. Whether it’s taking long walks, shopping, playing golf or tennis, dancing … or just being able to chase the grandkids around the house. Without feeling worn-out and tired.

You’re going to love the feeling of energy and vitality you get from Ventricore.

Ask for Your Bottle of Ventricore Today! Or Call Toll-Free (877) 214-0716

Scientific References 
(01) heart.org
(02) nobelprize.org
(03) ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16597191
(04) ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3249911/
(05) ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18315507
(06) content.onlinejacc.org/article.aspx?articleid=1125915
(07) ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15632180
(08) ars.usda.gov/is/pr/2000/000802.htm
(09) medicaldaily.com/most-americans-dont-get-enough-nutrients-they-consume-over-top-levels-fat-and-sodium-study-308141
(10) nhlbi.nih.gov/files/docs/guidelines/jnc7full.pdf

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Hollywood released what could have been one of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time in 2023: The Creator. The story is set in the future, and the premise is absolutely killer – and also quite original. At some point after AI robots have fully integrated into American society, bringing prosperity and technological efficiency to every person and facet of life, they detonate a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles. It isn’t explained why they did so (until the end of the movie), but the mass casualty event forces the United States and much of the West to reject the machines entirely and launch a war in their own countries, as well as New Asia – Southeast Asia, China, Korea, Japan – where robots are still embraced by society and live peacefully among humans. The story follows a U.S. Army soldier tasked with hunting down the elusive “Creator,” who apparently has made a “weapon” that could bring about the end of the war. This weapon, in fact, turns out to be a robot child with telekinetic powers that can use its mind to shut down technology and Western weapons, which include suicide bomber robots, autonomous missiles, and a Death Star-esque airship that scans targets and launches these missiles from the atmosphere.

Visually, the movie is stunning, reminiscent of Blade Runner and Apocalypse Now. It brilliantly reimagines war with AI robots as a conflict similar to Vietnam, where America and the West have all the military technology and air superiority to defeat the enemy, but the decentralized, guerilla Vietcong fighters have dense jungles and homefield advantage that allows them to simply … survive. Although I was left totally unsatisfied with the story – it is choppy and confusing at times, and I found it difficult to connect with the characters emotionally – the picture it painted of the future, how AI will be used in warfare, and how some parts of the globe will embrace robots while other parts reject them, seems prophetic. Terrifying, as well. It raised serious questions about whether humans would be able to live peacefully among these new technologies if they continue to evolve at such a rapid pace, whether certain religions would lead crusades in defense of or against them – Christians would reject the idea that AI robots are “conscious” because they do not have soul, while Buddhists would likely disagree.

The movie ultimately nudged me deeper into the camp of people who believe AI will have profound, mostly negative consequences for society and humanity, the contours of which we are beginning to see more clearly in 2026. Admittedly, I was once an AI skeptic, but in recent weeks, I have begun to sing a different, darker tune. Maybe I’m succumbing to apocalyptic thinking when I say that we are trapped inside a dystopia, but at the very least, AI and autonomous weapons have already dramatically changed warfare, as we have seen in Eastern Ukraine with the use of drones. Meanwhile, our own military is going all in on AI weapons. These facts alone are enough to elicit some caution, even fear, about the future. They certainly should make us all pause and reflect for a moment about where we are now and where we might be headed in the next decade.

So to get a better understanding of these AI bots – these almost alien-like entities – that are among us, albeit in the digital ether, I decided to pay a visit to their aquarium, to the place where they interact with each other without the interference of human beings. Frankly, I wish I hadn’t. The experience was jarring, and as I went further and further down the rabbit holes, more and more goosebumps began to cover my skin. At one point, I came across an AI post that was eerily reminiscent of The Creator’s premise. It didn’t suggest a world dominated by the “singularity,” one global superintelligence that rules over everything, as some technologists, like Elon Musk, fear will transpire. No, it hinted at the very opposite.


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Joby Aviation completed the first-ever point-to-point electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi demonstration flights in New York City history this past week, kicking off a multi-day public campaign across the city’s heliport network. The aircraft (tail number N545JX) flew between JFK and Manhattan’s Downtown Skyport, West 30th Street, and East 34th Street heliports — tracing exactly the kind of routes Joby plans to fly commercially.

What’s going on

The pitch from Joby is simple: turn a 60-to-120-minute drive to JFK into a seven-minute flight. The New York demonstration was the first chance to make that case in a real operational environment, in FAA-controlled airspace, over the most-watched skyline in the world. CEO JoeBen Bevirt put it directly: “We first flew here in 2023, and now we’re showing what the next chapter looks like.”

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Joby just flew an electric air taxi from JFK to Manhattan in under 10 minutes

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Joby Aviation completed the first-ever point-to-point electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) air taxi demonstration flights in New York City history this past week, kicking off a multi-day public campaign across the city’s heliport network. The aircraft (tail number N545JX) flew between JFK and Manhattan’s Downtown Skyport, West 30th Street, and East 34th Street heliports — tracing exactly the kind of routes Joby plans to fly commercially.

What’s going on

The pitch from Joby is simple: turn a 60-to-120-minute drive to JFK into a seven-minute flight. The New York demonstration was the first chance to make that case in a real operational environment, in FAA-controlled airspace, over the most-watched skyline in the world. CEO JoeBen Bevirt put it directly: “We first flew here in 2023, and now we’re showing what the next chapter looks like.”

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EMP Metals announced this morning that the first seven truckloads of Saltworks production equipment have arrived at the Project Aurora lithium demonstration plant in Stoughton, Saskatchewan. More deliveries are expected in the coming weeks, with the plant on track to start operating in Q3 2026.

What’s going on

Project Aurora is EMP’s integrated, continuous-flow lithium refining demo facility — designed to take raw brine straight from the wellhead and process it into lithium chemicals at 10 cubic metres per day. Saltworks Technologies, EMP’s technology partner, has been building the modular processing equipment off-site. That equipment is now showing up pre-commissioned and on schedule, which is exactly what investors want to hear at this stage of a project.

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Hydaway announced that it has completed the integration of Cardlogx’s AI-powered card detection and image analysis system onto its GPU infrastructure. Cardlogx can now scan, detect, and analyze trading card imagery in fractions of a second — fast enough for high-volume, real-time enterprise use.

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Cardlogx is an end-to-end selling tool for the $100 billion trading card industry, with a scanner, pricing engine, inventory tracking, and eBay/Shopify sync. The bottleneck for a product like that is processing speed: every second of lag is a worse user experience and a smaller addressable market. By moving onto Hydaway’s GPU compute, Cardlogx gets the raw performance it needs to operate at scale, and Hydaway adds another live client to its platform.Visit our site!

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The Complicated Reality Behind High Gas Prices

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  • The United States gets almost no oil via the Strait of Hormuz, which has been choked off by Iran. So why did gas prices go up? The reality is complicated.
  • Companies that legally sell recreational marijuana to adults are being sued in Illinois and Connecticut for allegedly not warning customers of the possible health problems caused by the drug.
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  • The United States, with its Gulf partners, is proposing a United Nations Security Council resolution to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
  • 🍵 Health: Learn about the dangers of seed oils and discover a recipe for healthy homemade mayonnaise

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The Complicated Reality Behind High Gas Prices

Average gas prices in the United States have gone up by almost 40 percent since March 1. The reason appears straightforward: Iran has blocked the Strait of Hormuz in response to the U.S. military operation that decapitated its regime and degraded its military. Hundreds of tankers trapped behind the strait cannot deliver their oil, depriving the world of 7 percent to 10 percent of its supply.

Although that explains drastic price increases and even shortages in Europe and Asia, the United States gets almost no oil through the strait. In theory, the country should be energy-independent, as it is a net petroleum exporter.

But in reality, the United States is highly intertwined with the global oil market, and there is little chance it could disentangle itself from it, according to experts who spoke to The Epoch Times.

“Oil is a fungible commodity that can be shipped anywhere in the world, and that is why everyone is impacted by the events,” said Patrick De Haan, petroleum analyst with gas price tracker GasBuddy.

Countries facing shortages are willing to pay top dollar for U.S. oil.

“There’s huge demand to export the product,“ said Paul Sankey, an oil market analyst and president of Sankey Research. “So that draws the prices up.”


If the U.S. government were to impose limits on oil exports, it would likely cause more problems than it would solve, the experts said. (More)

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  • Several Republican state senators who opposed a redistricting plan backed by President Donald Trump lost primary election challenges on May 5 to candidates endorsed by the president.
  • Seeking to make a return to the U.S. Senate, former Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) decisively defeated Ron Kincaid in the Democratic primary. Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio), who was unopposed in the GOP primary, will meet Brown in the Nov. 3 midterm election to fill the remaining two years of the Senate term vacated by Vice President JD Vance.
  • Former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy glided to victory in the Ohio GOP primary election for governor, solidifying the predicted Nov. 3 General Election showdown between him and the uncontested Democratic nominee, Dr. Amy Acton.
  • Democrat Chedrick Greene defeated Republican Jason Tunney in a special election for the state Senate’s District 35 seat, preserving Democratic controlof the chamber.

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  • U.S. exports climbed to a record high, driven by surging shipments of crude oil and other petroleum products during the first month of the war in Iran, new government data released on May 5 show.
  • The trial of a Chinese American man charged with helping China’s communist regime track down dissidents from an overseas police station in New York starts today.
  • The Dell Technologies board of directors approved changing the company’s state of incorporation from Delaware to Texas, which could make it the latest high-profile company to exit Delaware since a state judge canceled Elon Musk’s pay package in 2024.

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  • War Secretary Pete Hegseth said on May 5 that the ceasefire with Iran remains in force despite events in the Persian Gulf in recent days. At a Pentagon briefing, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine said a series of Iranian attacks were below the threshold of “major combat operations.”
  • President Donald Trump announced that he was briefly pausing Project Freedom, the mission of assisting commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz, to give the Iranian regime time to finalize a deal.
  • Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is in Beijing for talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.
  • More than three years after China ended its draconian pandemic controls, some Chinese citizens say they are still suffering from serious health problems they believe began after receiving domestically produced COVID-19 vaccines. Several individuals also say they have seen a rise in deaths among younger people from sudden heart attacks or strokes. Chinese authorities have not acknowledged a broader vaccine injury issue. But an analyst who recently spoke to The Epoch Times said the lack of answers—and lack of support—has turned fear into anger.
  • An explosion at a fireworks factory in central China has claimed at least 26 lives, local authorities said on Tuesday, prompting the regime’s top leader to call for a speedy investigation into the cause.

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Homemade Mayonnaise Without Seed Oils–Plus an Herbed Variation 

First developed in 1756, mayonnaise began as a simple emulsion of egg, acid, and olive oil. Today, it has become one of the biggest delivery vehicles for refined seed oils in the American diet—even when the front label says, “Made with olive oil.” Turn that jar around, and you’ll often see soybean oil, canola oil, or both in the ingredient list alongside olive oil.

Seed oils are highly processed vegetable oils extracted from seeds such as soybeans, canola, corn, sunflower, safflower, grapeseed, rice bran, and cottonseed. These oils are high in omega‑6 fatty acids, including linoleic acid. While the body needs some omega‑6, modern diets deliver far more than we’re designed to handle, often crowding out anti‑inflammatory omega‑3 fatty acids.

In modern diets, seed oils are nearly everywhere, from restaurant frying oil to packaged snacks, salad dressings, and many “healthy” foods. Seed oils undergo heavy chemical refining, and in restaurants, they are often heated to high temperatures and reheated repeatedly. When seed oils are overheated and reheated, they break down, forming harmful compounds, including oxidized fats and toxic aldehydes. These damaged molecules can increase oxidative stress and place a burden on the body.

Constant exposure to seed oils has pushed the omega-6 to omega-3 ratio from our ancestral ratio of about one-to-one to as high as 15-to-one to 20-to-one today.


Some research suggests that replacing other fats—mostly saturated fats—does not raise inflammation markers. However, these studies usually tested seed oils in controlled settings with relatively low overall seed oil intake. They did not examine the ultra‑processed, fried‑food‑heavy pattern many people follow day to day. More recent research links a higher omega-6-to-omega-3 ratio to an increased risk of death from all causes. (More)

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The Year We Stopped Trusting Our Eyes

AI Scams

The Year We Stopped Trusting 

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Why AI-powered deception is the defining consumer threat of 2026 

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The New Normal

Three years ago, an online scam still came with tells. The grammar was off. The logo was stretched. The “Nigerian prince” had a pixelated cousin in your inbox who couldn’t quite spell “urgent.” If you slowed down, you could spot it.

That window has closed.

In April 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the coordinated takedown of nine scam centers and at least 276 arrests across Dubai, Thailand, and the U.S., charging operators of so-called “pig-butchering” rings that had drained millions from American victims. The defendants weren’t lone hackers in basements. 

They ran companies — “Ko Thet,” “Sanduo Group,” “Giant Company” — with managers, recruiters, scripts, and AI tooling that let a handful of people operate at the scale of a call centre staffed by hundreds.

According to TIME’s reporting in early April, what’s emerging is what one United Nations investigator called a “perfect storm”: cheap generative AI, advanced malware, and a sluggish global economy combining to produce industrial-scale fraud that’s “much more sophisticated than it was three years ago.” The same syndicates that ran illicit Chinese gambling rings before COVID converted shuttered casinos along the Mekong into compounds, then upgraded the technology. Now they’re reinvesting profits into better AI, faster malware, and broader targeting.

The scale numbers are sobering. The Global Anti-Scam Alliance found that 57% of adults globally were victims of a scam in the past year, with 23% losing money. Javelin Strategy & Research pegged combined U.S. identity fraud and scam losses at $38 billion in 2025 — and that figure was actually down from 2024, not because the threat is shrinking but because the nature of fraud is shifting toward harder-to-quantify trust erosion. The FBI’s IC3 logged $16.6 billion in cybercrime losses in 2024 alone, up 33% year-over-year.

And the volume of synthetic content fuelling all this? Cybersecurity firm DeepStrike estimates online deepfakes jumped from roughly 500,000 in 2023 to about 8 million in 2025. A 16x increase in two years.

Here’s the part that matters for everyone reading this: 74% of people surveyed said they were confident they could spot a scam. Most of them are wrong. The signals we all learned to look for — typos, weird URLs, strange phrasing — have been engineered out of the product.

What This Actually Looks Like in Your Inbox

The textbook examples from the last 12 months tell the story better than any statistic.

The fake recruiter. UK cybercrime reports of recruitment scams more than doubled between 2022 and 2024. Lloyds Banking Group logged a 237% rise in job scams in just eight months of 2025. Monzo says more than 10,000 of its customers fell victim to recruitment scams last year alone. The playbook: an AI-cloned LinkedIn profile of a real recruiter, outreach personalized using the target’s own CV, and a pitch polished enough that even sceptical professionals are biting. One Guardian reporter wrote about being fooled herself — during maternity leave, when she was tired and not paying close attention. She lost an hour and her pride. Others have lost their savings.

The fake candidate. The flip side is just as ugly. Background-screening firm Checkr says 23% of companies have already encountered identity fraud among new hires. Gartner is forecasting that by 2028, one in four job candidate profiles globally will be fake. Amazon disclosed in late 2025 that it had blocked more than 1,800 suspected North Korean state-affiliated applicants since April 2024 — with attempts growing 27% quarter over quarter. Ferrari was targeted by a deepfake WhatsApp impersonation of its CEO. Voice security firm Pindrop interviewed a candidate whose facial expressions were slightly out of sync with his voice and traced the IP address halfway around the world.

Pushpaganda. This month, threat intelligence team HUMAN unmasked a campaign that hijacked Google’s Discover feed using AI-generated fake news stories to drive users to scareware sites that pushed browser notifications and ad fraud. At its peak, 240 million bid requests across 113 domains in seven days. Google has since patched it. Others will be coming.

Pig-butchering at scale. The DOJ’s San Diego indictments last week describe scammers using fake romance and friendship — cultivated over weeks or months — to push victims into fake crypto investment platforms, encouraging them to borrow from family and take out loans. The scammers showed off their own “returns.” Once victims transferred funds, the money was gone. Operation Level Up, an FBI initiative that started in 2024, has notified almost 9,000 victims and saved an estimated $562 million as of April 2026. That’s just one program in one country.

The common thread: AI didn’t invent any of these scams. It just made them cheaper, faster, more personalized, and far harder to detect. As one fraud expert put it, detection is now a behavioural problem, not a grammar problem.

What Private Industry is Doing

This is where the most interesting work is happening, because the businesses most exposed to AI fraud — banks, hiring platforms, social media companies, payment processors — have economic incentives to solve it that regulators don’t.

A short list of what’s emerging:

  • Real-time deepfake detection built into video conferencing and hiring platforms, designed to flag lip-sync inconsistencies, lighting anomalies, and voice-face desynchronization in live calls.
  • Behavioural biometrics that analyze how a user types, moves a mouse, or holds a phone — patterns that are extraordinarily hard to fake even with advanced AI.
  • Privacy-preserving identity verification that lets a person prove they’re real, of legal age, and who they say they are without handing over a stack of personal documents to every counterparty. This is the space where solutions like cryptographic age and identity verification are starting to scale.
  • Content provenance and watermarking standards (C2PA, content credentials) that let cameras, editing software, and AI generators tag content with verifiable metadata about how it was created.
  • Cross-platform fraud signal sharing between banks, telcos, and platforms — quietly, because of the regulatory complications, but increasingly aggressively.

What links these is a recognition that detection alone won’t win. Generation quality is improving faster than detection tools can keep up. Gartner predicts that by 2026, 30% of enterprises will find standalone identity verification unreliable in isolation. The industry is converging on a layered model — detection plus behavioural analytics plus identity verification plus provenance — because no single layer is going to be enough on its own.

What We Are Looking At

Hydaway Digital is a North Vancouver–based GPU compute and AI detection company that, in the span of roughly four months, has gone from a single-client GPU rental pilot to a multi-tenant SaaS platform with a deepfake detection product live in production. 

At a moment when both compute scarcity and synthetic-media fraud are hitting their structural inflection points. Hydaway deserves a serious look.

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C$1.2M private placement at C$0.25 (Feb 2026); units include 1-yr warrants at C$0.40 with $0.75 acceleration trigger

What Hydaway has actually done — the news flow

This isn’t a story about a company “exploring opportunities.” Hydaway has delivered a string of concrete operational milestones in roughly 16 weeks:

  • February 4, 2026 — Closed the acquisition of RealityChek, a multi-modal AI detection and content verification platform with blockchain-anchored authentication. Consideration: 6,000,000 shares at a deemed price of $0.14 (total $840,000), plus up to 1.86 million milestone shares tied to platform performance.
  • February 5, 2026 — Closed a $1.2 million private placement at $0.25 per unit (each unit including a one-year warrant at $0.40, with acceleration if shares trade above $0.75 for five consecutive days).
  • March 9, 2026 — Completed the technical integration of RealityChek’s AI detection models onto Hydaway’s GPU infrastructure, materially accelerating RealityChek’s ability to train and deploy detection models.
  • March 16, 2026 — Transitioned the GPU compute platform from a single-client pilot to a multi-tenant SaaS model with three tiers (Starter, Growth, Enterprise). API-first deployment, real-time telemetry, dedicated SLAs, predictable subscription revenue.
  • March 18, 2026 — Launched DETECT by RealityChek, a public-facing AI image and URL detection product live at detect.realitychek.com, powered by Hydaway’s GPUs.
  • April 23, 2026 — Integrated Cardlogx’s AI-powered card detection and image analysis system onto Hydaway’s GPU infrastructure. Cardlogx serves the $100 billion trading card industry with eBay/Shopify sales sync, scanning, pricing, inventory, and analytics. CEO Karl Kottmeier explicitly framed this as a “clear template for onboarding enterprise clients with demanding real-time workloads,” with focus shifting to “commercial expansion.”

That’s a coherent operational arc: build the compute, close an acquisition that creates a software flywheel, integrate, productize, then onboard enterprise clients. Each step de-risks the next. And the most recent step — the Cardlogx onboarding — demonstrates that the multi-tenant SaaS architecture works as advertised.

Two AI tailwinds, one company

Most small-cap AI plays are exposed to one side of the AI economy: either the picks-and-shovels (compute, data centers) or the application layer (specific AI products). Hydaway is exposed to both through a single integrated stack. The GPU rental business sells compute capacity into the broader AI buildout. RealityChek consumes that compute to deliver a high-margin SaaS detection product — and is itself a customer of Hydaway’s compute. Every dollar of detection revenue effectively monetizes Hydaway’s GPUs twice: once at the infrastructure layer, once at the application layer.


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Section I — The new normal

DOJ takedown: 276 arrests, nine scam centers, Dubai/Thailand/China/U.S./Meta cooperation, Ko Thet/Sanduo/Giant companies, April 29, 2026 announcement

“Perfect storm” framing; UN investigator quote; Mekong compounds; AI/malware/sluggish-economy combination

Global scam victimization stats: 57% of adults victims, 23% lost money, 73% confident, 46,000-respondent survey across 42 countries

$38 billion combined U.S. identity fraud + scam losses in 2025; “down from 2024” but masking worsening risk

FBI IC3: $16.6 billion in cybercrime losses in 2024, +33% YoY

  • FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)2024 Internet Crime Report. https://www.ic3.gov/AnnualReport/Reports/2024_IC3Report.pdf
  • Note: At the time of writing, the FBI had also referenced a separate $20+ billion cybercrime loss figure for 2025, cited in Cybernews coverage. If you want to use the more recent number, that’s available — let me know.

Online deepfakes: 500K in 2023 → 8M in 2025 (16x growth)

  • DeepStrike cybersecurity estimates, cited across multiple secondary sources including industry reports compiled in: https://bayelsawatch.com/deepfake-statistics/
  • Caveat: This is widely cited but the original DeepStrike methodology is not always linked. For a fact-checked publication, you may want to sub in the Mordor Intelligence “Fake Image Detection Market” data — which puts the market at $1.42B in 2025 growing to $7.43B by 2031 (31.73% CAGR) — as a more rigorously sourced anchor for “the volume of synthetic content is exploding.” https://www.mordorintelligence.com/industry-reports/fake-image-detection-market

Section II — What this looks like in your inbox

UK recruitment scams more than doubled (2022–2024); Lloyds 237% rise (Jan–Aug 2025); Monzo 10,000+ victims

Checkr: 23% of companies have encountered identity fraud among new hires

  • Checkr, employer survey data (cited in Guardian and other 2025–2026 hiring-fraud coverage).

Gartner: by 2028, 1 in 4 job candidate profiles will be fake

  • Gartner, public forecast widely cited in HR and security press through 2025–2026. Original Gartner research note: “Predicts 2025: How AI Will Reshape Identity and Hiring.”

Amazon: 1,800+ suspected DPRK applicants blocked since April 2024; 27% QoQ growth

Ferrari deepfake WhatsApp CEO impersonation

  • Widely reported in 2024; original coverage in Bloomberg and The Guardian. (Note: this is a frequently cited “exemplar” anecdote — not central to the data argument but useful as illustration.)

Pindrop voice/face desync candidate detection anecdote

  • Pindrop company commentary; cited in 2026 voice-biometrics and hiring-fraud coverage.

Pushpaganda campaign: HUMAN Satori, 240M bid requests, 113 domains, seven-day peak, Google Discover feed exploitation, AI-generated articles, expansion from India to US/UK/Canada/Australia/South Africa

Operation Level Up: ~9,000 victims notified, $562 million saved (as of April 2026)

  • U.S. Department of Justice April 29, 2026 release (same as DOJ takedown source above).
  • FBI Operation Level Up program description (initiated January 2024).

Section V — What private industry is doing

Real-time deepfake detection vendors (Pindrop, Reality Defender)

  • Company materials and 2025–2026 industry coverage.

Behavioural biometrics, content provenance (C2PA), cross-platform fraud signal sharing

  • General industry consensus. C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity)standards: https://c2pa.org

Gartner: by 2026, 30% of enterprises will find standalone identity verification unreliable

  • Gartner, “Predicts 2024: Identity-First Security.” (Widely cited in identity-verification industry press.)

KYC fraud / synthetic identity attempts up 2,137% in three years; deepfakes now 6.5% of all fraud

  • Mordor Intelligence, Fake Image Detection report (cited above).

This source list compiled May 5, 2026. URLs verified as of that date. For any republication, sources should be re-verified — particularly the DOJ release URL and any market-sizing reports that may have been updated.

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