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14 May 2018

Q-Anon Malware Scheme

Titus Frost charges that the Q Anon crew is pushing malicious spyware on the community to make money. The Q-Anon alerts app is a money-making Ponzi scheme that also data mines your phone and all the other app information. Delete it immediately. If true, it means that many diligent Q-Anon followers have been duped by a money-making operation.

Lift the Veil also has begun to challenge some of the activity surrounding Q-Anon as fraudulent. We are not going to argue that these naysayers are correct. They could be — in which case we have all been duped. Or they could be disinformation agents planted to spread lies at a time when Q-Anon is getting closer to the truth. Time will tell what’s really afoot.

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04 Mar 2013

Africa’s Internet Scammers

Fraudsters in West Africa show Vice how they use internet scams to steal thousands of dollars from unsuspecting victims all over the globe.

While Nigeria’s 401 scammers may have written the book on West African internet fraud, their shtick looks like Compuserve compared to what’s going on in Ghana. Unsatisfied with the meager winnings from emailing thousands of random Westerners in hopes of convincing one poor sap they’re the treasurer of the Ivory Coast, Ghana’s scammers decided to stack the odds in their favor the old-fashioned way—witchcraft.

Taking a page from cyberpunk, traditional West African Juju priests adapted their services to the needs of the information age and started leading down-on-their-luck internet scammers through strange and costly rituals designed to increase their powers of persuasion and make their emails irresistible to greedy Americans. And so “Sakawa” was born.

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