Investigations

Cases in the open

Evidence-bound corpora, published so they can be checked. Built to be attacked; the reasoning is auditable rather than asserted.

Before you read anything else

Several people whose names and faces appear in this material are victims of identity and image theft, not participants. If you think you have identified a person, do not act on it and do not publish it.

Wiener-Gate

active

Multi-brand online pet-purchase fraud network, documented as a criminal supply chain rather than a single suspect. One shipping front publishes its template vendor’s demo credentials in plain text and ships “(demo)” in its own footer in two languages.

140 hashed files · 104 site captures · 6 briefs · 9 wiki pages · v1.0 August 2026

DOCUMENTED

Operation Ledger Mist

in progress

Crypto investment platform cluster. Publication pending redaction review; findings remain provisional until the corroborating artifacts are filed.

redacted · under review

PROVISIONAL

Case 2026-011

sealed

Referred to law enforcement. Nothing publishes until the referral concludes. A redaction miss is permanent the moment it is public.

sealed · law-enforcement referral

UNVERIFIED

Featured corpus · Wiener-Gate

A family went looking for a small dog. They were told within a day that they had been approved, asked for a deposit through a phone payment app, and given a hard pickup date to hurry them along. There was no dog. What makes this one worth your time is what was sitting behind it: a supply chain of rented services, not one perpetrator.