Pith Number

pith:A5GFGOON

pith:2026:A5GFGOONMLEA4IVG7TRE7E6SNX

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Read This Paper to Get $50 Million:* An Analysis of Mobile Messaging Scams Using Reddit Data

Allison Lu, Bernardo B. P. Medeiros, Kevin R. B. Butler, Patrick Traynor

arxiv:2605.16656 v1 · 2026-05-15 · cs.CR · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A5GFGOONMLEA4IVG7TRE7E6SNX}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-20T00:02:34.689674Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

074c5339cd62c80e22a6fce24f93d26dca2de0759a5c90c12b0fa959a18bcc97

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.16656 · arxiv_version: 2605.16656v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.16656 · pith_short_12: A5GFGOONMLEA · pith_short_16: A5GFGOONMLEA4IVG · pith_short_8: A5GFGOON

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/A5GFGOONMLEA4IVG7TRE7E6SNX \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 074c5339cd62c80e22a6fce24f93d26dca2de0759a5c90c12b0fa959a18bcc97

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0796102a3aabc61c45550b9d4ee4a6352ff6cc7d98b33743803a2c4db6352c60",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-15T21:50:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2a82c95268f7c4635263ba0761f883174f03bc9add86b5e89df99ec022797dc9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.16656",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}