Draft:Hucksters.net

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.

Background
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. 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.

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.

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

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.

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