02. Inside the Telegram channels where survey fraud is coordinated
For the past year, I've been monitoring 40+ Telegram channels where survey fraudsters coordinate daily, sharing proxy setups, trading anti-detect browser configs, and reviewing which panels are easiest to game. In this roundtable, I'll walk you through what's actually happening in these channels, and what that view reveals that's hard to see from the data alone.
Then we open it up. Bring the fraud patterns you've seen in your own studies, the weird completion times, the suspicious clusters, the panels you stopped trusting, and we'll work through what was likely going on behind them.
Data quality conversations tend to get polarized. This one won't be. Fraud is more organized and more nuanced than either side of that debate usually admits, and you'll leave with a clearer picture of what you're actually up against.
