Victim Location 02135
Type of a scam Other
There is a site called BostonVoyager that is publishing interviews of local artists and small businesses. I think I’ve debunked them as an entirely bot run site, with a fake office and fake employees and exploiting artists and small businesses.
http://bostonvoyager.com
They’ve been publishing hundreds of these interviews about people in Boston and several other cites in the US. I feel like this is something people should be warned about because of the amount of people who’ve already fallen for it including some Big Names. This is more than just a canned interview site, I think its stealing intellectual property (take a look at their TOS (with a virtual address to send DMCA requests)) and possibly a site that harvests data from the business interview forms. It’s been all over social media and very prominent arts/music people have fallen for it it seems.
TOS: http://voyagela.com/terms-of-service/
It’s one thing for something like FB to use your content with TOS use, but this is exploiting local artists and small business.
I’ve also found out that they use Digital Ocean servers which are notoriously known for Ukrainian astroturfing.