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StellarCrowandClaude Fable 5.1 439e83a4cb feat(sources): Wayback pass, automatic trimming, detention rule, ten cases re-sourced 
Second and third rounds on the dossier pipeline, reviewed locally before commit.

Retrieval
- wayback_pass.py: retries every BLOCKED/DEAD/THIN/ERROR linked source through
  the Wayback Machine; blocks carry the snapshot date, archive URL and the live
  verdict. 143 slots retried: 93 fetched, 37 no snapshot, 12 script shells, 1 PDF.
- fetch_sources.py: fetch_wayback() helper.
- add_extra_sources.py: files staged extra_* finds (web search, not on the DB
  record) into the store with a provenance note.
- Cases re-sourced by web search: 248 (Oslo: Document.no, Avisa Oslo, NRK; the
  linked Le Parisien piece is case 242 and is marked OFF-CASE), 258 Kharkiv,
  260 Singapore, 358 Bangkok, 365 Las Vegas, 388 Verneuil-sur-Seine, 390 Zoersel,
  430 Homestead. 341 of 364 cases now hold a fetched article; 11, 66 and 399
  have no public text source (podcast, police video, direct victim report).

Trimming
- auto_trim.py: case-anchored furniture cut for UNTRIMMED blocks. Finds the body
  run that mentions the case, merges across subheadings and short furniture
  gaps, drops teasers, share bars, date/URL/caption lines and subscription
  pitches; refuses pages with no record term or almost no body. 302 blocks
  trimmed; 16 left on auto-trim-review.md (7 OFF-CASE suspects). Every cut is
  labelled AUTO-TRIMMED, UNREVIEWED in the dossier; the full extract stays in
  staging/. Decisions with anchors in trim-decisions-auto.json.
- build_cases.py / verify_all.py: banners for auto-trimmed and archived blocks,
  staged-file check extended to Wayback blocks, flag legend under the record.

Detention rule
- README "Definitions": the DB field `kidnappings` is the DETENTION violence
  type (victim, guard, staff or relative held to force submission or execute
  the theft), distinct from the Kidnapping scenario (taken away and held).
- detention-flag-review.md / detention-flag-corrections.json: 40 records
  reviewed with evidence; 30 set-to-1 proposals accepted by the owner on
  2026-09-06 (listed in corrections-approved.md), 10 still open.
- apply_detention_wording.py: "Violence Used" in the 70 reviewed summaries now
  names detention explicitly (62 of 70 labelled), supported by the summary's
  own text; idempotent; supersedes the batch scripts' wording.

Worklist and docs
- sofia-worklist.md: 248 decisions, detention rule item replacing the old
  "no abduction" item, fresh-search section for the textless cases.
- README-START-HERE.md: progress notes, run commands, next steps.
- Bug fixed in passing: Wayback blocks stored in-memory text with carriage
  returns; now stored as read back from disk.

verify_all.py PASSES (2321 checks).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GZZENdTLzNGsbNy4DyF1yt
2026-09-06 19:36:45 +02:00

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CASE 173 | Uber Riders | March ?, 2024 | USA
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DATABASE RECORD
id 173
date March ?, 2024
original_date March, 2024
year 2024
month 3
quarter 2024-Q1
victim Uber Riders
location Scottsdale, Arizona
country USA
scenario Authority Misuse
description Uber driver misused his position to steal $200K+ in crypto from customers' Coinbase accounts by taking their phones to "navigate".
kidnappings 0
violence_torture 0
drugs_alcohol 0
weapons 0
theft 1
life_taken 0
money_wanted $200k
coin_type crypto
reports NBCNews
notes uber driver pretended to need customers phone for navigation while transferring BTC from their wallets
has_processed_date 0
created_at 2025-11-13 05:44:45
(flag legend: 'kidnappings' is the DETENTION flag — 1 when the victim was held against
their will at any point, tied, locked in, held at gunpoint or taken away; it is NOT the
same as the 'Kidnapping' scenario, which means taken away and held. See README, Definitions.)
AI SUMMARY [generated at bulk import, NOT verified against sources]
**Victim:** Uber Riders
**Attackers:** Individuals misusing authority
**Attack Method:** Authority Misuse
**Violence Used:** Threats/intimidation
**Crypto Stolen:** $200k in crypto
**Status:** Investigation ongoing
LINKED SOURCES
[url] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fake-uber-driver-made-300000-stealing-customers-cryptocurrency-rcna184096
NOTES ON THIS FILE
* matched to sheet row 174: exact match on victim + year, unique on both sides
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ARTICLE 1
Source NBCNews
URL https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fake-uber-driver-made-300000-stealing-customers-cryptocurrency-rcna184096
Origin reported_K&R sheet, row 174, column "Articles"
Length 2,728 chars
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Fake Uber driver made $300,000 stealing customers' cryptocurrency, police say
Police said Nuruhussein Hussein would ask to use the victim’s phone on the pretense of needing to look up directions or connect to the Uber app, ony to access their digital wallet.
By Patrick Smith
Police have arrested a fake Uber driver who is accusing of stealing more than $300,000 in cryptocurrency from unwitting passengers.
Officers in Scottsdale, Arizona, a desert city east of Phoenix, apprehended Nuruhussein Hussein, 40, on Wednesday on felony charges of theft, fraud and money laundering, Scottsdale Police Department said in a statement.
In a joint operation with the United States Secret Service field office in Phoenix, police said they found that between March and December this year the suspect pretended to be an Uber driver and picked up unsuspecting customers who had ordered a real ride outside a hotel in Scottsdale.
Police said Hussein would then ask to use the victim's phone, on the pretense of needing to look up directions or connect to the Uber app.
"While manipulating the unsuspecting victim’s phone the suspect transferred cryptocurrency from their digital wallet to his digital wallet," police said in a statement.
The suspect was booked into Maricopa County Jail and both police and the Secret Service are continuing their investigation. He was charged with two counts of money laundering, two counts of fraudulent schemes and two counts of theft. He appeared in court for a bond hearing Wednesday and is due to appear again on Dec. 18.
The court heard Wednesday that he told one alleged victim to "chill or something bad would happen."
A $200,000 bond was placed on him and prosecutors told the court that the suspect regularly travels to Ethiopia and was a flight risk. The terms of the bond include constant electronic monitoring, a ban on all internet use and to stay in Maricopa County.
Cryptocurrency fraud, a fast-growing and lucrative crime, is a huge concern to law enforcement authorities. People across the U.S. made more than 69,000 complaints and reported losing $5.6 billion to this form of fraud in 2023, the FBI said.
The true figure is likely many times higher due to the reluctance of some victims to contact authorities.
More than 16,000 complaints of cryptocurrency fraud came from people over 60, according to the FBI's first Cryptocurrency Fraud Report, released in September.
Arrests related to cryptocurrency scams are relatively rare. Four accused scam artists, three from Southern California and one from suburban Chicago, were charged in an alleged so-called "pig butchering" scheme last December that persuaded victims to part with more than $80 million, officials said Thursday.
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FETCHED ARTICLE 1 [AUTO-TRIMMED — UNREVIEWED]
!! Furniture was cut by a script keyed on this case's record, not by a person.
!! It may still carry passages about OTHER cases from a round-up article.
!! The full page extract is kept in staging/ if a cut needs revisiting.
Source nbcnews.com
URL https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fake-uber-driver-made-300000-stealing-customers-cryptocurrency-rcna184096
Field url
Retrieved 2026-09-05T12:50:50+00:00 via raw HTTP retrieval, deterministic extraction (HTTP 200)
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Kept paragraphs headline [0] + 1-15 of 16
Length 2,756 chars
Integrity sha256 65ddc9e6b02bd82143b7d1441221a58ab2da41546f27150fc75bb73176dafefb
Trimmed AUTO-TRIMMED, unreviewed: kept paragraphs 1-15 plus headline [0]; dropped 0 leading and 0 trailing paragraphs. Case-term hits on page: 11.
Caveat retrieved from a live page on the date above. Unlike text copied
from the spreadsheet, there is no second copy to hash it against.
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ORIGINAL (unknown, verbatim as retrieved)
Fake Uber driver made $300,000 stealing customers' cryptocurrency, police say
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Fake Uber driver in Arizona accused of stealing cryptocurrency
Police have arrested a fake Uber driver who is accusing of stealing more than $300,000 in cryptocurrency from unwitting passengers.
Officers in Scottsdale, Arizona, a desert city east of Phoenix, apprehended Nuruhussein Hussein, 40, on Wednesday on felony charges of theft, fraud and money laundering, Scottsdale Police Department said in a statement.
In a joint operation with the United States Secret Service field office in Phoenix, police said they found that between March and December this year the suspect pretended to be an Uber driver and picked up unsuspecting customers who had ordered a real ride outside a hotel in Scottsdale.
Police said Hussein would then ask to use the victim's phone, on the pretense of needing to look up directions or connect to the Uber app.
"While manipulating the unsuspecting victim’s phone the suspect transferred cryptocurrency from their digital wallet to his digital wallet," police said in a statement.
The suspect was booked into Maricopa County Jail and both police and the Secret Service are continuing their investigation. He was charged with two counts of money laundering, two counts of fraudulent schemes and two counts of theft. He appeared in court for a bond hearing Wednesday and is due to appear again on Dec. 18.
The court heard Wednesday that he told one alleged victim to "chill or something bad would happen."
A $200,000 bond was placed on him and prosecutors told the court that the suspect regularly travels to Ethiopia and was a flight risk. The terms of the bond include constant electronic monitoring, a ban on all internet use and to stay in Maricopa County.
Cryptocurrency fraud, a fast-growing and lucrative crime, is a huge concern to law enforcement authorities. People across the U.S. made more than 69,000 complaints and reported losing $5.6 billion to this form of fraud in 2023, the FBI said.
The true figure is likely many times higher due to the reluctance of some victims to contact authorities.
More than 16,000 complaints of cryptocurrency fraud came from people over 60, according to the FBI's first Cryptocurrency Fraud Report, released in September.
Arrests related to cryptocurrency scams are relatively rare. Four accused scam artists, three from Southern California and one from suburban Chicago, were charged in an alleged so-called "pig butchering" scheme last December that persuaded victims to part with more than $80 million, officials said Thursday.
Patrick Smith is a London-based editor and reporter for NBC News Digital.
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