Pith Number

pith:EPOCACG6

pith:2017:EPOCACG6QR6DC5UXCPUVZYPFXN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

By Hook or by Crook: Exposing the Diverse Abuse Tactics of Technical Support Scammers

Athanasios Kountouras, Bharat Srinivasan, Manos Antonakakis, Monjur Alam, Mustaque Ahamad, Najmeh Miramirkhani, Nick Nikiforakis

arxiv:1709.08331 v1 · 2017-09-25 · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EPOCACG6QR6DC5UXCPUVZYPFXN}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:34:25.856168Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

23dc2008de847c31769713e95ce1e5bb6fdd531c8b86a9268c1a5d2652faf840

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.08331 · arxiv_version: 1709.08331v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.08331 · pith_short_12: EPOCACG6QR6D · pith_short_16: EPOCACG6QR6DC5UX · pith_short_8: EPOCACG6

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EPOCACG6QR6DC5UXCPUVZYPFXN \
  | 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: 23dc2008de847c31769713e95ce1e5bb6fdd531c8b86a9268c1a5d2652faf840

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e95ce4ae1431a3d7bd9e860320407d75700d6c1bc44099305ac55af7c40e4b6a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-25T05:58:13Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "817e18bf3fb4095fc36c5254ba9f77efc1019e1598ed1b52d58729e6c5307fa7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.08331",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}