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ICS0018 Hands-on seminars

2025-02-12T08:24:07Z

Ksnowi: /* The Seminars */

=== The idea ===

The hands-on seminars are a task for '''teams of three''' (initially based on Kristjan Karmo's ScamLab materials). The goal is to learn about different scams in a safe(ish) but real environment. A little side quest is to waste scammers' time so that they can't use it on actual victims.
A successful presentation will result in passing the course if the attendance criteria (5 out of 8 lectures and seminars) is met. To register a presentation, '''please team up and register below''', in your chosen time slot. '''There are limited presentation slots - first come, first served!''' (note: as people sign up, we will probably have to cram as many presentations as possible into each seminar - but the space is not infinite, we will have more or less 90 minutes for each).

Note: this time, we went from paired work to 3-person teams due to the number of people in the course (the seminar time would not have been enough for pairs).

=== The Task ===

Step 1: Create a fake identity and honeypot email account for engaging with scammers. Other platforms are also welcome, as long as you are able to protect your identity.

Step 2: Distribute the email address on shady or spammy sites, such as social media, online forums, etc. Some tips can be found here https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-get-scam-emails

Step 3: Wait for the scams to start rolling in.

Step 4: Engage! First select if you're going to use a naïve or aggressive approach.

If you don't manage to get any scammers to directly email your newly created address, go look in your regular mailbox, in the spam folder, ask friends & family, etc. NB! Before replying to any of those "crowdsourced" scam emails from your fake account, be sure to delete the address it was originally sent to.

Some tips for safety:
# Never reveal your (or anyone else's) real personal information to the scammers. Make up something realistic.
# Never open any links in emails unless you're in a protected sandbox environment.
# NEVER give out any real financial information, account information, or passwords.
# Always use Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). Even on your fake accounts.

Here's the grand prize: if you manage to engage with at least 3 scammers for an email chain of 5 messages or more (they respond to at least 2 of your letters in the same thread), and present your findings at one of the seminars, '''you pass the course'''. It's not as easy as it might first seem.

An alternative way to pass is to educate people in your social network, friends, family, coworkers, etc about scams, how to spot them, how to avoid them, what to do if you're already a victim. If you want to use this option, please contact Kaido (over e-mail or MS Teams) and suggest how would you do it.

=== The Seminars ===

The hands-on seminars will have the following schedule:
* Thursday, March 6 at noon (12:00)
** Stiven Lille, Innar Viinamäe, Georg Lee
** Liam Ivanko Kivirist, Pavlo Kolesov, Julian Gressmann
** Vusal Sayadov, Jeyhun Mustafayev, Salim Akbarov
** Ksawery Nowina-Witkowski, Niko Chinikadze, Ionut-Cristian Sindile
** ...
* Thursday, March 13 at noon (12:00)
** Valerija Kuzina, Vassili Korobov, Andrei Timoshin
** Miriam Popič
** Nikita Šabunin, Artem Skurchynskyi, Maksim Balašov
** ...
** ...
* Thursday, March 20 at noon (12:00)
** Kaspar Sibul, Matīss Ceriņš, Liyanage Don Sithil Insara Liyanage
** Marat Biryukov, Maria Aleksandra Ploduhhina, Kirill Ševtsov
** David Ayson, Angelica Daisi Stewart, Tekla Berozashvili
** Rassell Muru, Ivan Kuznetsov, Andrei Šutkov
** Tanel Maasik, Gabriel Jääger, Eric Richard Kogerman
* Thursday, March 27 at noon (12:00)
** Deniss Pavlov, Diana Anastassija Turks, Pavel Shemetov
** ...
** ...
** ...
** ...

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ICS0018 Hands-on seminars

2025-02-12T08:07:15Z

Ksnowi: /* The Seminars */

=== The idea ===

The hands-on seminars are a task for '''teams of three''' (initially based on Kristjan Karmo's ScamLab materials). The goal is to learn about different scams in a safe(ish) but real environment. A little side quest is to waste scammers' time so that they can't use it on actual victims.
A successful presentation will result in passing the course if the attendance criteria (5 out of 8 lectures and seminars) is met. To register a presentation, '''please team up and register below''', in your chosen time slot. '''There are limited presentation slots - first come, first served!''' (note: as people sign up, we will probably have to cram as many presentations as possible into each seminar - but the space is not infinite, we will have more or less 90 minutes for each).

Note: this time, we went from paired work to 3-person teams due to the number of people in the course (the seminar time would not have been enough for pairs).

=== The Task ===

Step 1: Create a fake identity and honeypot email account for engaging with scammers. Other platforms are also welcome, as long as you are able to protect your identity.

Step 2: Distribute the email address on shady or spammy sites, such as social media, online forums, etc. Some tips can be found here https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-get-scam-emails

Step 3: Wait for the scams to start rolling in.

Step 4: Engage! First select if you're going to use a naïve or aggressive approach.

If you don't manage to get any scammers to directly email your newly created address, go look in your regular mailbox, in the spam folder, ask friends & family, etc. NB! Before replying to any of those "crowdsourced" scam emails from your fake account, be sure to delete the address it was originally sent to.

Some tips for safety:
# Never reveal your (or anyone else's) real personal information to the scammers. Make up something realistic.
# Never open any links in emails unless you're in a protected sandbox environment.
# NEVER give out any real financial information, account information, or passwords.
# Always use Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). Even on your fake accounts.

Here's the grand prize: if you manage to engage with at least 3 scammers for an email chain of 5 messages or more (they respond to at least 2 of your letters in the same thread), and present your findings at one of the seminars, '''you pass the course'''. It's not as easy as it might first seem.

An alternative way to pass is to educate people in your social network, friends, family, coworkers, etc about scams, how to spot them, how to avoid them, what to do if you're already a victim. If you want to use this option, please contact Kaido (over e-mail or MS Teams) and suggest how would you do it.

=== The Seminars ===

The hands-on seminars will have the following schedule:
* Thursday, March 6 at noon (12:00)
** Stiven Lille, Innar Viinamäe, Georg Lee
** Liam Ivanko Kivirist, Pavlo Kolesov, Julian Gressmann
** Vusal Sayadov, Jeyhun Mustafayev, Salim Akbarov
** Ksawery Nowina-Witkowski, Niko Chinikadze, [Anyone who wants to join us]
** ...
* Thursday, March 13 at noon (12:00)
** Valerija Kuzina, Vassili Korobov, Andrei Timoshin
** Miriam Popič
** Nikita Šabunin, Artem Skurchynskyi, Maksim Balašov
** ...
** ...
* Thursday, March 20 at noon (12:00)
** Kaspar Sibul, Matīss Ceriņš, Liyanage Don Sithil Insara Liyanage
** Marat Biryukov, Maria Aleksandra Ploduhhina, Kirill Ševtsov
** David Ayson, Angelica Daisi Stewart, Tekla Berozashvili
** Rassell Muru, Ivan Kuznetsov, Andrei Šutkov
** Tanel Maasik, Gabriel Jääger, Eric Richard Kogerman
* Thursday, March 27 at noon (12:00)
** Deniss Pavlov, Diana Anastassija Turks, Pavel Shemetov
** ...
** ...
** ...
** ...

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Exam schedule

2024-12-16T09:44:48Z

Ksnowi:

NB! Make sure you're registered for the exam in ÕIS!

# DEC 27 8:00-8:55
#* Rivo Lipp
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
# DEC 27 9:00-9:55
#* Günther Miklas
#* your_name_here
#* Ayaz Zeynalov
#* your_name_here
#* Juss Roderick Janson
# DEC 27 10:00-10:55
#* Illia Shved
#* Maksym Fedorov
#* Zhiyun Wang
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
# DEC 27 11:00-11:55
#* Maivo Sirelbu
#* Mykola Fernandes de Rives
#* Patrik Tamm
#* Mathias Siimon
#* your_name_here
# DEC 27 12:35-12:55
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
# DEC 27 13:00-13:55
#* your_name_here
#* Nikita Springis
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
# DEC 27 14:00-14:55
#* Nikoloz Chichinadze
#* your_name_here
#* Danila Vysotski
#* Deborah Allan Chapkovski
#* your_name_here
# DEC 27 15:00-15:55
#* your_name_here
#* Fabienne Golle
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
# DEC 27 16:00-16:55
#* Kamil Błasiak
#* Ksawery Nowina-Witkowski
#* Maxim Borodin
#* Mahammad Seyidzada
#* your_name_here

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Group 2 seminar schedule

2024-09-22T08:33:07Z

Ksnowi:

LINK TO RECORDINGS (will be published when seminars start)

# OCT 30:
#* Daniel Zapryanov
#* Thomas Dourgarian
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
# NOV 6
#* Danila Vysotski
#* Maivo Sirelbu
#* Illia Shved
#* Mykola Fernandes de Rives
#* Isabel Zimmermann
# NOV 13
#* Patrik Tamm
#* Cebanu Dan
#* Fabienne Golle
#* Nikita Springis
#* Vladislav Sahhov
# NOV 20
#* Ksawery Nowina-Witkowski Impact of Social media
#* Maksym Fedorov
#* Zhiyun Wang
#* Nikoloz Chichinadze
#* your_name_here
# NOV 27
#* your_name_here
#* Anna Sulkhanishvili
#* your_name_here
#* Liisa-Maria Laide
#* your_name_here
# DEC 4
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
# DEC 11
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
# DEC 18
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here

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Group 2 seminar schedule

2024-09-03T18:21:10Z

Ksnowi:

LINK TO RECORDINGS (will be published when seminars start)

# OCT 30:
#* Daniel Zapryanov
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
# NOV 6
#* Danila Vysotski
#* Maivo Sirelbu
#* Illia Shved
#* Mykola Fernandes de Rives
#* Isabel Zimmermann
# NOV 13
#* your_name_here
#* Cebanu Dan
#* Fabienne Golle
#* Nikita Springis
#* your_name_here
# NOV 20
#* Ksawery Nowina-Witkowski
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
# NOV 27
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
# DEC 4
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
# DEC 11
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
# DEC 18
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here
#* your_name_here

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