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My brother actually laughed at dinner and said, ‘I sold that useless laptop of yours for five hundred bucks. Finally got rid of your junk.’ My cousins cheered him on. Then he added, almost proudly, ‘Already handed it off to the buyer.’ I got up, stepped outside, and called my supervisor. By the time I made the report, the FBI cyber team was already tracking the device…

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the immediate call. I gave them everything I could without dramatizing it, because dramatizing facts in rooms like that makes professionals trust you less, not more.

When I finished, the adjudications man closed his folder. “You followed reporting protocol appropriately.”

That was the nearest thing to reassurance I was going to get from him.

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