Pith Number

pith:U2O4PWT6

pith:2024:U2O4PWT65HMCPRVCLGWDYQUXAJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Conning the Crypto Conman: End-to-End Analysis of Cryptocurrency-based Technical Support Scams

Adam Oest, Antonio Emanuele Cin\`a, Bhupendra Acharya, Hoang Dai Nguyen, Lea Sch\"onherr, Muhammad Saad, Phani Vadrevu, Thorsten Holz

arxiv:2401.09824 v1 · 2024-01-18 · cs.CR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U2O4PWT65HMCPRVCLGWDYQUXAJ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T07:35:02.773932Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a69dc7da7ee9d827c6a259ac3c42970246968971dbc9038af45b6386676ab1cb

Aliases

arxiv: 2401.09824 · arxiv_version: 2401.09824v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2401.09824 · pith_short_12: U2O4PWT65HMC · pith_short_16: U2O4PWT65HMCPRVC · pith_short_8: U2O4PWT6

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/U2O4PWT65HMCPRVCLGWDYQUXAJ \
  | 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: a69dc7da7ee9d827c6a259ac3c42970246968971dbc9038af45b6386676ab1cb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ae2225f3c9d99fd63c557b3569aaecbc5d28ddd0e2c2605e4ad7ec785699eec5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2024-01-18T09:31:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4374cbd854d7daae4d8277286ce1dcbcd59c25abaf59dada00128105e8ed2de9"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2401.09824",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}