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I reached out to Ryan Rafols before publishing this article, and he offered to speak on the phone, but did not respond to questions via email. If he does respond in writing, I will update this article with his reply (or he can comment below). Hucksters can exclusively reveal a large part of the illegal […]

Update May 25: It has come to our attention that several high-ranking employees of ZeroFox have anonymously accused the company of highly unethical activity on Glassdoor (several of the “positive” reviews appear to be written by sales people/recruiters/freelancers). Among other accusations, they say: “They will do whatever it takes to make a sale, often times […]

Hucksters can exclusively reveal the man behind a years-long scam targeting thousands of Craigslist users who were buying and selling used vehicles, and asked to “order” a vehicle history report from one of dozens of temporary websites used in the scheme. The mastermind is Hairuddin Ali, a Muslim Indonesian man who lives in Jakarta, Indonesia […]

Hucksters can exclusively reveal some of the ongoing illegal email spam campaigns being managed by Darian Rafie, a veteran marketing consulting and evangelical Christian who has been assisting big-name Republican politicians, as well as small-time local churches. Although Rafie has been involved in email marketing for many years — much of which we have little […]

Hucksters can reveal some exclusive details about the Parler “hacker” known as @donk_enby that have never been published before, however during our research we realized that Joey Camp had already discovered her name a few days before us. Donk Enby, who’s following on Twitter has exploded in recent months, is a Polish citizen named Tomasz […]

Below is a brief look into how adversarial governments are invading your inbox with fraudulent email spam. Update July 2022: Now using brand names: Arbermos Update May 2022: Now using brand names: Surogou, Strastip Update April 2022: Now using brand names: JilTel, Pivot Over Update Feb 2022: Now using brand names: Mobiletelecommunication Update September 2021: […]

Both the @YaWhispers and @LadyHawkins accounts blocked us on Twitter after we contacted them. Ms. Hawkins own literary agent, Holly Root, also had not responded to our email before time of publication. Hucksters can exclusively reveal that young adult fiction writer Rachel Hawkins is the person behind the infamous @YaWhispers account on Twitter who has […]

At time of publishing, Turnage had not yet responded to request for comment. Update July 2022: Last year during the COVID pandemic, Kirkland Law quietly passed Turnage off to U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, whose staff apparently didn’t vet him very carefully (or simply didn’t care). In the past few days, Turnage has deleted his LinkedIn […]

Update Feb 15, 2021: It has been brought to our attention that some of the data we found scraped by a third-party domain (it was dead at the time of our research, but we found incomplete snippets still in the Google cache) was actually research done by ne0ndistraction on GitHub. Therefore, this expose published by […]

Update November 2020: “Enty” appears to have sent legal threats to Google and got the below discussion deleted from Reddit, along with getting this page at least temporarily removed from Google search results, thus proving that we have the right guy. Update October 2020: See discussions on Tumblr and Reddit and PurseForum Hucksters can exclusively […]

Update August 2020: Users on Free Republic have discovered that Juanillo shares a home address with Mr. David A Crowther in Guerneville, California, lending even more credence to Alexander’s claim that she did not recognize him in this neighborhood. Update June 13, 2020: Despite Juanillo not being black (yet apparently trying to pose as black), […]

Hucksters has exclusively exposed the owners of the increasingly popular DNyuz.com website that publishes thousands of news stories without any bylines, authors, or credits. Despite the total lack of transparency, the website has become one of the main sources for the web’s leading news aggregator, Drudge Report, which has been popular among the right-wing for […]

“I am the cookie!” screamed Wally Amos in a 1990s interview about how he grew Famous Amos cookies into not only a massive consumer product, but also a household name, despite his cookies being, well, rather mediocre. It might certainly have been true for a while, but eventually Amos sold his company and those little […]

The year is 2019, and much of the Western world has been shifting politically from progressive leftism to populist nationalism. Nowhere has this shift been as obvious and controversial as in the United States, always part bellwether, part rebel amongst its peers and allies.