🚨UK warning: fake police calls are hitting people 3–4 times a week. Caller ID shows a genuine police number because it's spoofed.

They know your full name and home address. They're calm, confident, well spoken and sound exactly like officers.

The script: "We're investigating, we've found your financial information, we need to verify some details." Ask for a badge number and they'll give one. But it's fake.

Red flags:
- "Don't tell friends or family, it could compromise the operation"
- "This call is being recorded" when you push back
- Questions about crypto accounts and bank details.

Refuse and it turns sinister. One person was threatened with armed police sent to their home on a hoax report. They had to call 999. Being scam-aware doesn't make you immune. The pressure is real.

What to do?

1. Hang up. Caller ID proves nothing.
2. Call 101 from a different phone, or wait 10 minutes first.
3. If you're threatened, call 999.
Real police will never ask for crypto or bank details over the phone, or tell you to keep it from family.

4. If you hold any crypto (even small amounts) or your personal details are already circulating, Gart runs private security advisory.

DM us to book a call or in-person session.
https://gart.io/training

#news #security

No notes, no Zoom, bitcoin accepted. Gart goes off the record.



We are ending public workshops.
From now on every engagement is private: one client, or the circle they choose, and us.

The open format worked.
It also put strangers in one room to discuss where they live, how they travel, and what is at stake. Most people held back. Sensibly.

What replaces it: executive, family, and private group training, in person, plus remote advisory on a call server we host ourselves.

No notes kept, no recording, no file on you. Invoice only, bitcoin or wire.

Read more:
https://gart.io/blog/gart-blog-1/gart-drops-public-workshops-to-go-fully-one-on-one-17

In January this year, a streamer in Sweden was beaten and doused in gasoline by attackers who were sure he was rich in crypto. He had none.

Months after, he came out to tell the story.



They picked him for one reason: he was visible, and visible looks rich.

Your balance can stay private. Your public profile usually can't. What would a stranger reading yours guess you're worth?

Attackers don't act on what you hold.

They act on their guess at it, built from leaked databases, breach dumps, and whatever you show in public.

On 24 August, 2026, in Jouy-en-Josas, France, three men broke into a 47-year-old's home at dawn, tied and gagged him, and beat him for about two hours for his crypto codes.

They were sure he held close to EUR 6 million. His wallets held about EUR 3,000.

The men at the door were working from bad data. What in your public footprint is feeding someone else's guess?

Full report:
https://gart.io/stats#case-47-y-o-male-france-august-24-2026

Your keys are encrypted. You are not.

A hardware wallet does nothing when the attacker is in the room and you can open it yourself. Our physical security trainer explains why self-custody needs a second layer: if you can move everything on demand, so can anyone who takes you.

Multisig, and keys you cannot all reach at once, remove the single moment they are counting on.

This is a clip from our personal security webinar for exposed individuals. Full session coming up on Youtube next week.



Need help?
Book a private call with our trainer to go over your unique situation and harden your security.
https://gart.io/advisory

Most location and safety apps keep you safe by watching you.

They log where you go and sell the pattern.

Gart was built as a safety app that protects you by knowing nothing about you: no account, no tracking, no company that can be made to hand over what it never held.




@alenasatoshi and the team explain why the whole category is a surveillance problem, and how a truly private alert actually works.

The full session is up on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmUPK4kErwk

There is a way to pull your location and account data from a company like Apple or Meta without a warrant.

It isn't a hack of their systems.
It's a forged police email.

It's called an EDR or emergency data request.
Providers are built to answer them fast, no warrant, because the claim is "a life at risk".

You cannot patch a legal process. Which is why an app that stores your movements is a liability, however much you trust the company holding them.



Gart keeps you safe by knowing nothing about you.
By design.

Download Gart: https://gart.io/app

When your home address leaks, what is your plan?

We have seen it over and over. Someone breaks into a third party that holds the order data and walks away with the link between who owns Bitcoin and where they live.

Assume your data is already out there. Then make deliberate choices about the safety of your home and your family.

Educate yourself in situational awareness, home security, travel habits, and the response protocols worth having ready before you need them.

At the Gart workshop we go through these protocols and shape them around your situation, with a trainer who's also a bitcoiner and a family man himself, and knows what is at stake.

Join us for the next one in Lugano on October 21.

https://gart.io/event/gart-workshop-plan-b-forum-lugano-2026-4/register

Today, LIVE webinar about Gart app.

Join to share your feature requests, ask questions and see what is upcoming in our development.

2pm UTC