# Expert Source Profile — Yuksel Aydin

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## Yuksel Aydin

**Founder and Director, HCSK Inc.**

### Areas of expertise

- Online scams targeting older adults
- AI-enabled fraud (voice cloning, deepfake video, generative phishing)
- Investment scams and cryptocurrency fraud ("pig butchering")
- Retirement-account fraud (401(k) rollover scams, IRA scams, pension buyout fraud)
- Government impersonation scams (IRS, Social Security, USCIS, Medicare)
- Romance and confidence scams
- Estate and probate fraud against widows and widowers
- Veteran-targeted scams (VA benefits, PACT Act fraud, claims predators)
- Federal elder fraud data (FBI IC3, FTC Sentinel, FinCEN, DOJ Elder Justice)
- State-by-state elder fraud comparison
- Cybersecurity and AI/ML threat modeling

### Short bio (50 words)

Yuksel Aydin is the founder and director of HCSK Inc., a U.S. nonprofit focused on online scams targeting older adults. His background is in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, applied to the population that faces the fastest-growing share of online fraud losses in the country.

### Medium bio (100 words)

Yuksel Aydin is the founder and director of HCSK Inc., a Delaware non-stock nonprofit corporation dedicated to becoming the most reliable, comprehensive, and freely accessible online resource for older adults and their families facing scam threats. With a background in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, he applies that technical expertise to a population that is underserved by both fields: older Americans, who in 2025 reported $7.748 billion in losses to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center — a 59% year-over-year increase. He leads HCSK Inc.'s integrated analysis of federal elder fraud data across FBI IC3, FTC, FinCEN, and DOJ Elder Justice sources.

### Long bio (200 words)

Yuksel Aydin is the founder and director of HCSK Inc., a Delaware non-stock nonprofit corporation dedicated to becoming the most reliable, comprehensive, and freely accessible online resource for older adults and their families facing scam threats. With a background in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, he applies that technical expertise to a population that is underserved by both fields: older Americans, who in 2025 reported $7.748 billion in losses to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center — a 59% year-over-year increase, and the fastest-growing category of cybercrime in the United States.

He leads HCSK Inc.'s integrated analytical program combining five years of FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center data, FTC Sentinel Network findings, U.S. Treasury FinCEN suspicious-activity-report aggregates, and an original corpus of more than 1,600 elder-fraud news articles. The analysis covers all 52 U.S. states and territories, six audience-specific scam categories, and the international scam-compound infrastructure that produces a significant share of fraud targeting U.S. seniors.

Through seniors.hcsk.org, he and HCSK Inc. publish more than 400 pages of original analysis and prevention content, all released under Creative Commons Attribution license. He operates from Paris, France, with a U.S. corporate structure designed to engage U.S. federal data sources, state attorneys general, banks, and community partners.

### Press contact

- Email: [press@hcsk.org](mailto:press@hcsk.org)
- LinkedIn: [linkedin.com/in/yuksel-aydin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuksel-aydin/)
- Web: [seniors.hcsk.org/for-press/](https://seniors.hcsk.org/for-press/)

### Time zone, availability

- **Time zone:** Central European Time (CET / UTC+1)
- **Available for U.S. East Coast** interviews 8:00 AM ET – 11:00 AM ET (typical European afternoon)
- **Available for U.S. West Coast** interviews limited; best 5:00 AM – 7:00 AM PT (afternoon European)
- **Languages:** English (full proficiency), French (full proficiency), Turkish (full proficiency)

### Preferred interview formats

- Phone / WhatsApp call
- Zoom, Google Meet, or Teams video
- Email Q&A (responses within 24 hours)
- Written commentary / op-ed contribution
- Background-briefing calls available on request

### Response time

- **Fact-checking inquiries:** 24 hours business days, 48 hours weekends and holidays
- **Interview requests:** 24 hours acknowledgment, scheduling within 72 hours typical
- **Urgent / breaking-news commentary:** within 4 hours when available

### Standard photo / video assets

- High-resolution headshot (when available)
- Author photo for print
- Video bio clip (when available)

### Notable publications

- *seniors.hcsk.org* — 432+ pages of original analysis and prevention content covering federal data, state-by-state breakdowns, AI-enabled scams, and audience-specific guides (caregivers, retirees, veterans, surviving spouses, limited-English seniors, rural seniors)
- Forthcoming: annual integrated elder-fraud analysis (release date to be announced)

### Organization

HCSK Inc. (Human Cybersecurity Knowledge for Seniors)
Delaware non-stock nonprofit corporation
Website: [seniors.hcsk.org](https://seniors.hcsk.org)

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## For journalist databases (HARO/ProfNet-style listing)

**Name:** Yuksel Aydin
**Title:** Founder & Director
**Organization:** HCSK Inc.
**Expertise:** Elder fraud · AI scams · cybersecurity · retirement fraud · romance scams · government impersonation · pig butchering · cryptocurrency fraud
**Quote-ready:** Yes — pre-approved quotes on multiple topics available at [seniors.hcsk.org/for-press/](https://seniors.hcsk.org/for-press/)
**Response time:** 24 hr business / 48 hr weekend
**Languages:** EN, FR, TR
**Contact:** press@hcsk.org
**Web:** seniors.hcsk.org