Keeping the bad ones out.
Anatomy of a scam empire: Brains and businesses behind Chen Zhi’s network centred in Cambodia
The Business Times unravels the tangled web of sanctioned collaborators, accused associates and entities, using Handshakes data
How to Win Followers and Scamfluence People
Format Boy makes a living teaching Yahoo Boys, notorious West African scammers, how to use AI and deepfake technology to ensnare their next victims.
Sold to gangs, forced to run online scams: inside Cambodia’s cybercrime crisis
Thousands of people from Taiwan, Vietnam and Thailand have been tricked into slavery and are unable to leave a ‘living hell’
Bluesky follower sales websites
As Bluesky grows, so does the spam industry orbiting it
Revealed: Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound’s Enslaved Workforce
A whistleblower trapped inside a “pig butchering” scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materials—including 4,200 pages of messages that lay out its operations in unprecedented detail.
Deepfakes, Scams, and the Age of Paranoia
As AI-driven fraud becomes increasingly common, more people feel the need to verify every interaction they have online.
Haotian AI : Providing Deepfake AI For Scam Bosses - Frank on Fraud
An advertisement for Haotian AI, a company that provides face-changing software on Telegram, shows they mean business. “We have an R&D team of hundreds of programmers and dozens of servers to serve you.” The braggy advertisement, which just might be directed at Pig Butchering bosses running scam compounds in Southeast Asia, reveals the extent of […]
Scam!
64K votes, 1.2K comments. 719K subscribers in the NonPoliticalTwitter community. Twitter and Bluesky without the politics. Come vibe with us as we…
I got targeted
Someone targeted me in an attempt to gain access or credentials because of my Open Source and/or consulting roles
How Pig Butchering Scams Work — ProPublica
Thousands have lost huge sums after being lured into fraudulent online investment schemes by seemingly attractive strangers who strike up online conversations with them. Here’s a guide to spotting the telltale signs.
SybilLimit: A Near-Optimal Social Network Defense Against Sybil Attacks
Open-access distributed systems such as peer-to-peer systems are particularly vulnerable to sybil attacks, where a malicious user creates multiple fake identities (called sybil nodes). Without a trusted central authority that can tie identities to real ...
What Would You Do If Your Employer Could Destroy the World?
Exit interviews with defectors from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind.
Oh dear lord, I knew it was bad, but didn't know it was this bad: hackers.pub/@fedify/2026/why-activitypub-… (I've mostly just contributed to activitypub projects that already existed, so didn't usually need to experience these specific pains)
Why implementing ActivityPub is hard, and why it doesn't have to be
hackers.pubBluesky should go back to invites, continue aggressive bot bans, create a Craigslist-style marketplace (since you’re more likely to buy/get services from a educated or good person on here than any other social network), and market this place like a walled garden protected from enshittification.
Social media scams/scam compounds/disinfo
So-called pig butchering scams, romance scams, disinformation campaigns, etc.
Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior
A collection of reading and resources around patterns of operations online intended to disrupt networks, scam users, and otherwise affect the health of society and social media Should focus on theory and practice but not tools
Colombia's Petro accuses Israeli cyberfirm BlackCore of election interference
Las denuncias de sesgo contra plataformas digitales se multiplican en las elecciones de Brasil
Exposure to social bots amplifies perceptual biases and regulation propensity
個人セキュリティ脅威動向レポート2026 上半期 ～ 個人利用者に被害をもたらす「詐欺」と「AIのリスク」～
個人セキュリティ脅威動向レポート2026年上半期を公開 | トレンドマイクロ
Russia Aims to Inject Chaos Into Elections, U.S. Intelligence Finds
Uncovering Coordinated Networks on Social Media: Methods and Case Studies
A General Method to Find Highly Coordinating Communities in Social Media through Inferred Interaction Links
Exposing Cross-Platform Coordinated Inauthentic Activity in the Run-Up to the 2024 U.S. Election
Disrupting Dark Networks
Ecosystem or Echo-System? Exploring Content Sharing across Alternative Media Domains
↳ Slopaganda: The Inauthentic YouTube Network Selling Secession to Albertans — Canadian Digital Media Research Network
