OSINT Toolkit: How Not to Sock Puppet
Susan’s blundering reaches a critical juncture. She has larped herself into a corner. 🍿
A “sock puppet” is an anonymous account designed for a concealed purpose. This can be passive, e.g. for monitoring other accounts; or active, like creating content for a LARP.
Failed travel blogger and weaponized professional troll Susan aka KassandraSeven (K7) appears to be reaching the end of her capacity to hold her story together. This is how not to use a sock puppet.
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In January, Susan created this sock puppet account to pretend to be a “concerned fan” of my podcast in order to “argue” with her main account and disparage me in a slightly different way.
It’s a common part of coordinated trolling to use multiple accounts to play different roles to extend the conversation and direct negative attention to the target. They can be played by different people or the same person through sock accounts.
The trouble is somewhere in the last few weeks Susan lost the plot and this account completely changed personalities, goals and loyalties all at once. Now it’s super mad at me and loves K7 like… family. Awww. 👭
What’s surprising is that Susan would attempt to use her own sock puppet in a clownish effort to “prove” K7 is not Susan by fake emailing herself and then tweeting the “evidence.”
So now my “former fan” now calls me “stupid mfkr” and asserts that Sue is a “successful” travel blogger, which is an odd detail to include! Did Sue provide her bank statements? How successful is she?
Here is one of the lowest moments in Susan’s entire six-year LARP. I thought her “Machu Picchu 2: Electric Boogaloo” storyline was bad — we’ll get to that one. 😬
Now, instead of one LARP, she has to keep three sorted out.
I’m sure it will go well though.
Hmm, I do have a few more questions now! 🤔
How does Definitely Not K7’s Sock Puppet (DNK7SP) know I’m “vile” lying? Does DNK7SP know K7’s identity? If so, there’s an easy way to solve this whole thing!
Also,how did DNK7SP obtain Susan’s email address? Did she go stalking her? Why would DNK7SP email Susan on behalf of K7 instead of K7 emailing Susan herself?
So, now we have TWO anonymous Twitter LARPs making shit up to cover for Susan and claiming to have secret knowledge about each other’s identity that they won’t provide to anyone else. I’m not sure Susan has thought this through tbh.
Good thing Susan has a “successful business with travel blogging and travel photography” because she is awful at larping and storytelling.
Kool-aid
DNK7SP is very determined to prove K7 has a a dog in Michigan to the point of spending the time to do whatever this is below. Great to have brand new friends!
Also, how does DNK7SP know K7 doesn’t lie? Does DNK7SP have a “source with knowledge of K7’s thinking?” 😂
Again, Susan lived outside Detroit until after college in 1988. Her parents lived there until 2020, so getting a picture of a dog on a deck in Michigan does not require a sophisticated intelligence operation. Almost everyone Susan / K7 / DNK7SP knows is there.
Honestly, I’m not sure how Kool-aid (tm) got involved but it seems appropriate at this point. 🥴