Pith Number

pith:IATVOBAQ

pith:2019:IATVOBAQMX5VWLRRO6LZURVQHM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The gift of the gab: Are rental scammers skilled at the art of persuasion?

Richard Clayton, Ross Anderson, Sophie van der Zee

arxiv:1911.08253 v1 · 2019-11-19 · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IATVOBAQMX5VWLRRO6LZURVQHM}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T00:20:26.750045Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

402757041065fb5b2e3177979a46b03b01dad5b0c39326615978d653ab23b207

Aliases

arxiv: 1911.08253 · arxiv_version: 1911.08253v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1911.08253 · pith_short_12: IATVOBAQMX5V · pith_short_16: IATVOBAQMX5VWLRR · pith_short_8: IATVOBAQ

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IATVOBAQMX5VWLRRO6LZURVQHM \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 402757041065fb5b2e3177979a46b03b01dad5b0c39326615978d653ab23b207

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f747ba933d1acab8275f5defd32a391981373055c9afd5fdaae94474f1f86a33",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2019-11-19T13:27:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "184ad107a879139da3865d40d6ee686f0f585501dd152588a36706eb317f6e2b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1911.08253",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}