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Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley

medschneierPublished 2026-08-24

<p>Interesting <a href="https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/orsc.2024.19981">paper</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><b>Abstract:</b> With entrepreneurial fraud cases on the rise, we investigate how entrepreneurs carry out <i>criminal deception</i>, employing deceptive means to defraud audiences. Analyzing court data from Silicon Valley ventures and their founders prosecuted for fraud between 20

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Original source: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/criminal-deception-in-silicon-valley.html