On the tail of a scammer
On an otherwise unexceptional evening, my inbox came under attack.
Random emails were coming in faster than I could open them, let alone read their contents.
Many were from websites I’d never heard of, like Peel Up n Dye and British Hoverboards.
Some were in foreign languages. Others contained only garbled text.
Individually, the emails themselves held no meaning. They were just fodder designed to clog up my inbox.
It was the intent behind them — to harass, to intimidate — that hinted at their true sender.
Tracking down a scammer
An encounter with an Australian crypto scammer reveals an online underworld of extortion, hacking, and problem gambling.
Earlier that day, I’d been…
