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Hucksters.net is a fraud-tracking website that employs open-source intelligence techniques to expose the individuals behind significant email spam campaigns and online scams.^[1]

Background[edit]

The website is organized into a directory of people, brands, domain names, and other data points that can be sorted and searched.

Hucksters.net has been mentioned by multiple news outlets due to its role in exposing several QAnon conspiracy theory promoters and other alt-right figures, including the owner of Economics Job Market Rumors, a popular discussion forum among Ivy League economists known for promoting misogynistic content and gossip.^[2] The site also revealed Matt Drudge's alleged business partner, an Armenian web developer who was exposed by the site for mass plagiarism of American newspapers like the New York Times to help Drudge's news aggregator avoid paywalls.^[3]

The site also connected the anonymous censorship service used by multiple billionaires and Fortune 500 corporations, Takedown Reporting, as being a subsidiary of tax-funded FBI contractor ZeroFox.^[4]^[5]

In 2022, the site also helped to expose the Russian hackers who were leveraging a severe backdoor vulnerability in VMWare.^[6]^[7]

Hucksters.net research exposing an American doctor who was harming patients based on their political beliefs was also allegedly plagiarized by Tucker Carlson Tonight and the show's executive producer, Gregg Re, in the weeks leading up to the show being canceled by Fox News, although Fox News later issued a correction.^[8]^[9]

The site has also exposed multiple fake "pay-for-awards" brands, such as Industry Era.^[10]

References[edit]

^ "An Influential Economics Forum Has a Troubling Surplus of Trolls". Bloomberg News. 15 March 2024.
^ Quinn, Ryan. "Pressure on Controversial Online Econ Forum Continues". Inside Higher Ed.
^ Silverman, Craig (May 27, 2020). "The Drudge Report Has Been Linking To This Armenian Guy's Site Instead Of The New York Times". BuzzFeed News.
^ Wilson, Cam (January 12, 2024). "Gina Rinehart tried to censor Crikey articles using 'ridiculous' trademark request to tech companies". Crikey.
^ "Rinehart tried to censor Crikey by using a "ridiculous" trademark request Pi News". January 12, 2024.
^ Labs, Morphisec. "VMWare Identity Manager Attack: New Backdoor Discovered". blog.morphisec.com.
^ Team, S2 Research (January 27, 2023). "A Blog with NoName". Team Cymru.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ Wallace, Danielle (March 30, 2022). "Wake Forest medical student suggests she stuck patient twice with needle after he called out her pronoun pin". Fox News.
^ Emmons, Libby. "PRONOUN PRICK: Medical student suggests she abused patient with needle after pronoun diss". The Post Millennial.
^ "Dominique Grubisa is so vain, she probably thinks this award is about her". Independent Australia.

[1] "An Influential Economics Forum Has a Troubling Surplus of Trolls". Bloomberg News. 15 March 2024.

[2] Quinn, Ryan. "Pressure on Controversial Online Econ Forum Continues". Inside Higher Ed.

[3] Silverman, Craig (May 27, 2020). "The Drudge Report Has Been Linking To This Armenian Guy's Site Instead Of The New York Times". BuzzFeed News.

[4] Wilson, Cam (January 12, 2024). "Gina Rinehart tried to censor Crikey articles using 'ridiculous' trademark request to tech companies". Crikey.

[5] "Rinehart tried to censor Crikey by using a "ridiculous" trademark request Pi News". January 12, 2024.

[6] Labs, Morphisec. "VMWare Identity Manager Attack: New Backdoor Discovered". blog.morphisec.com.

[7] Team, S2 Research (January 27, 2023). "A Blog with NoName". Team Cymru.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[8] Wallace, Danielle (March 30, 2022). "Wake Forest medical student suggests she stuck patient twice with needle after he called out her pronoun pin". Fox News.

[9] Emmons, Libby. "PRONOUN PRICK: Medical student suggests she abused patient with needle after pronoun diss". The Post Millennial.

[10] "Dominique Grubisa is so vain, she probably thinks this award is about her". Independent Australia.

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