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Forensic Fantasies – #2: Identity theft

Posted on: May 11, 2016 /
Categories: Recent works

#2: Identity theft The second artwork of the series focuses on the phenomena of romance scamming.These scammers conduct identity theft by copying bulks of images of attractive people to create fraudulent profiles on social media platforms or dating channels. The scammers pose to be in love with their victim and after gaining their trust they

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Forensic Fantasies – #1: Not a Blackmail

Posted on: May 11, 2016 /
Categories: Recent works

#1: Not a Blackmail The first artwork of the series examines the possibility to blackmail a prior owner of a hard-drive. Besides finding sensitive data of the owner it is crucial to be able to contact the person to express ones demands. From one hard-drive we could find out who it had belonged to, further

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Megacorp.

Posted on: September 25, 2015 /
Categories: Recent works

[tribulant_slideshow gallery_id=”7″] “Megacorp.” is a corporate conglomerate inspired by its equally powerful counterparts in science fiction. The artwork is based on a collection of fake websites scraped from internet by the artist  duo KairUs. These companies exist only virtually and are used by cyber criminals for phishing attacks or to support scam stories. The “Megacorp.”

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Let’s talk business

Posted on: December 6, 2014 /
Categories: Recent works

[tribulant_slideshow gallery_id=”6″]   ‘Let’s talk business’ is a multi-channel audio installation that enables the visitor to listen to Internet scammers who try to lure potential victims into advance fee payments. Their phone numbers were extracted from a Scam Email database, analysed by country, and categorized by scam scheme. Once calling up, they had the chance

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Password: * * * * * *

Posted on: February 11, 2014 /
Categories: Recent works

  Password: * * * * * * reveals popular email-passwords of internet scammers. The passwords are arranged typographically in six stars, each star containing most popular word combination with the words: ‘good’, ‘love’, ‘money’, ‘mother’, ‘jesus’, ‘bless’. Email services like Gmail, Yahoo Mail or Outlook are used by scammers to create fake identities and

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