We’ve been working on a browser-based Link Graph (osint) analysis tool for months now (https://webvetted.com/workbench). The graph charting tools on the market are pretty basic for the kind of charting we are looking to do (think 1000s of connected/disconnected nodes/edges. Being able to handle 1M points is a dream.

This will come in very handy.

We’ve been working on this browser-based tool for months now. It’s a link graph analysis tool like Maltego. It helps you connect the dots between people, companies, businesses and domains. Currently, it has around 70+ transforms (API data calls). We also automatically clean the data, and make it available for download + plugging into your workflow.

Instead of exporting to an AI chat tool, You can also chat with the forensic data we gather from the transforms and find connections using AI right on the platform.

It was built with Laravel (PHP), JS and Cytoscape.

Doing OSINT-related work? Try it out and let me know what you think.

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This was after web had to geo block China & Singapore some weeks earlier.

These AI scraping guys are destroying the web for normal folks in these countries where they run data scrapers.

what it does: you enter a name and it assembles an OSINT-style report on any Fb user. its early but it works great.

the service is a suite of online vetting and due diligence tools for website flippers, Fb marketplace sellers/buyers and Tiktok shoppers

The domain has an interesting backstory. I acquired if it n 2022 from Epik after they stole the $10,000 I had deposited into their Escrow service. The money was meant for acquiring a newish stable diffusion hosting website that was competing with civit.ai. When the Epik issue was discovered, the seller pulled out.

Acquiring that website could have changed my life.

"Verify everything. Real LinkedIn profile doesn't mean real person. Real company doesn't mean real opportunity."

His story (How I almost got hacked by a job interview - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45591707) shows how easy it is to fall for professional-looking LinkedIn scams.

We built a tool that checks the job posting, the recruiter profile and the company's company pages for red flags. all in one straightforward report.

try it here: https://scamai.com/detect/jobs

sample report: https://scamai.com/detect/jobs/1

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How it works: https://www.loom.com/share/66603df7766f48d6a009f599e6d04714?...

Data sources: To answer your query, we canvass company docs, forums, fresh threads, youtube, etc. To qualify, a website needs to have at least 10 publicly available pages.

Our app is not meant as a replacement for official support but as a supplement while you wait for their real human support. In our experience, most queries already get solved by us anyways. We’ve recently introduced Voice Calls with plans to expand the availability to more sites and longer minutes.

PS: Offering public web support is an idea I’ve pursued in a lot of forms already. UserSupport AI is my latest iteration of it.

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In post-FTX 2022, I was ready to dive back into crypto. With a 5 figures investment, I chose Coinbase's Vault for "security" without the cold wallet setup hassle. I setup my email and phone number as the standard Signatories, loaded up my vault.

But this "No hassle" option became a horror show.

One month after setting up, I was blocked from accessing my Vault by a mysterious OTP pop-up that claimed to have sent me an OTP which never came. As an engineer, I signed in on my desktop and using inspect-element, found out some weird JS blocking the OTP request button from actually sending the OTP — odd, but I wrote it off as a bug and moved on.

Zoom to August 2023: Coinbase sends me an email that my region will no longer be supported. Few days later, they inform me I must go through a KYC process to keep using Coinbase, which I powered through. Post-KYC, my Vault's back, but guess what? A stranger's email had been added as a signatory to my Vaults — "Trudey Schucker" (d***@gmail.com). Full-on panic mode, I contacted support through a form that can only be found using a hidden treasure map of their site, only to be ghosted with an "Coinbase will only offer self-help customer support in your region" auto-reply. Case closed, and radio silence.

Few weeks later, I get an email from Coinbase Compliance (#16618823) , demanding my financial life story. I thought it was a scam email, but no, it was Coinbase asking for everything from bank statements to invoices to private chats—yeah, they went full strip-search on me. Here's what I provided them: 1. Personal Bank statement 2. Proof of income 3. Proof of employment 4. Business registration 5. Business invoices 6. private conversations between myself and the broker I used 7. Brokerage statements 8. All Transaction histories at other Exchanges, etc.

This is more information than I've given National Governments and Banks. It has been the most degrading experience of my life.

Plot twist: During this process, I got a hold of another Coinbase support team who that then addmitted that they added that bogus signatory email to my Vault to lock me down. This team then went ahead to break the Vault with the lesser crypto and siezed the crypto pending "hearing from Complaince". A complete shit-show.

It's been a 5-month now with no Vault access and no response from Coinbase. I'm sharing this story as a warning and in hopes someone with power sees this. When companies grow, they become evil. It's also true what they say: Not your wallet, not your coins. Lesson learnt.

Stay vigilant out there.

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