Gotcha! is a four-part series on scams, how they work, and how technology is supercharging them — running through to October 10.

In the series we look at:

1. Crypto: Mark Hays on how a thing touting financial freedom ended up being a kind of fin-cult, rife with scamming
2. Multi-Level Marketing : Bridget Read on the history of the biggest and most successful type of scam that still plagues us today
3. Generative AI: Data & Society’s primer on how generative AI is juicing the scam industrial complex
4. Enshittification: Cory Doctorow on his upcoming book, and how the process of Enchittification represents user-hostile practices that scam people into paying more, and ecosystem lock-in