“Conspiracy. Fraud. Violence. Murder. Two years after the resounding documentary Behind our smokescreens, Netflix continues its exploration of the most nefarious facets of the virtual world with a mind-boggling new series. In the Age of Decoys: The Internet of Crime includes five stories all more implausible than each other, and yet very real. From conspiracy theories to sexual blackmail, director Brian Knappenberger paints a sordid portrait of what can happen just two or three clicks away from home.
The first episode of the series hits hard with a disturbing foray into the swatting. This type of telephone prank, which is extremely popular in the American world of gaming aims to send police teams somewhere, claiming a crime… most often during ego battles between players or simply to entertain Internet users live.
Back in 2017, we carefully follow the course of events that claimed a victim in Wichita, Kansas, through the chilling testimony of Tyler Barriss, this Californian who has been convicted several times for having evacuated a television channel and a university in particular. resorting to swatting. If the series sometimes does a little too much in the narration, it nevertheless has the merit of captivating the viewer to better highlight the permanent one-upmanship that reigns on the Web.
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