Web Renegades - Dystopian Stories Series

0:00 On Truth Detective with Stephanie Lee. The main core topic of the episode is based on the truth, and in most episodes, some of the events, people, places, pseudonyms, and the lifestyle that I lead as a truth detective are fictionalized for a better Truth Detective storytelling experience. For each episode, go to the show notes for more information on the topic. Enjoy this episode, Welcome. This is Truth Detective with Stephanie Lee. Dystopian stories, Webb Renegades in the bustling city of New York, high above the dirty city streets. I am your own truth detective, known from my uncanny ability to uncover the fact, finding evidence based truth, no matter what kind or how much research I put into any investigation. And so it is.

1:21 I have always said I love anything low tech. Low tech to me means low risk of almost anything, And so it was. One day I stumbled upon a mysterious website I found while scrolling on Facebook. Uh, something I rarely do, but sometimes I must be on the platform for my investigative work. The website I was seeing sent shivers down my spine, if only for its all too obvious deception to those who shopped within this website. Oh it was a shopping site. Ok. I see a lot of shopping sites, but this shopping site was not hidden in the depths of a social media rabbit hole. No, it was way too easy to be tempted by its sparkly charm and way too easy to click on. The deals were amazing. Items started at less than a dollar were enticing even to my skeptical shopping proclivities. But with even my light research skills, it didn't take long before I found that it was a fast acting shopping experience that purchasers quickly fell for fast acting, meaning better act fast or lose the deal. The company started back in twenty twenty two, I found and then an add on Prime TV with the claim shop like a Billionaire. This meant we all could buy, and buy and buy with

2:54 no limits because the items were so inexpensive. With a claim like that, who wouldn't fall for those dupes and deals? And there were plenty of dupes and deals. Many users didn't know the truth behind the dastardly shopping site, but I was starting to figure it out by giving the link to friends and family. The more the original customer saved on the site, Many consumers thought it was cool but I knew it was a scam somehow. So by now you are probably wondering what the site is, and I am going to tell you, not only for your protection, but also for anyone who is curious. So now you can tell them to delete this shopping site as well, and I'll explain why. The name of the shopping site is t Mu t E m U. So I downloaded the app and cautiously began to look over the hundreds and thousands of items, and sure enough there were cute home items, jewelry, loungeware. It had it all. This web site was tremendous, The list was endless, and the prices were unbelievably low. In other words, a shopper's delight. Great, just what we needed more garbage to eventually get rid of.

4:16 It was surely a hub for shady business dealings that preyed on unsuspecting individuals that didn't have a clue. My curiosity peaked as I delved deeper into the sinister operations of Timu. As I navigated through the virtual maze of the site, I uncovered a web of deceitful practices. Yes, my intuition would be right this time, as it always had been in the past. The products showcased on the site were not only cheaply made with no or very little value, but were also linked to a Chinese company that was on the New York Stock Exchange, also known for its dubious dealings of unfair and nefarious activities, supposedly headquartered in the the United States. It all seemed so so innocent all along. I, your very own truth detective, felt so bad about downloading the app Timu, but I had to get to the truth. While researching all I could to uncover the truth, I met a group of conscientious warriors who wanted to solve the same bad business practices on the web. They called themselves the web Renegades.

5:26 It was my calling to work with them to find out what was really going on, in other words, to question everything and find the real truth. Without barely a touch on the keyboard, we found that the headquarters were in the Cayman Islands, and that was just for show to legitimize the bad practices. And oh there were bad practices, But how deep did they go? Even with my small amount of knowledge, we web Renegades found that the mystery was very, very deep. Discovered that the website Teamu was not just a platform for selling subpar products, but was also involved in activities of a personal nefarious in nature.

6:11 It was harvesting information from unsuspecting users and mining data from all apps on phones on your phones, including contact information, pictures, credit card information, spending habits, and personal details about you and me and all of us across all apps. And once we you, me, or anyone downloaded the app, Temu could also change the settings on your phone. It was definitely malfeasance. We web renegades found lots and lots of articles and videos on the dastardly and demonic deeds of the corporation, and yes, we all embarked on a dangerous journey to expose the criminals behind the website Teamu, and as we dug deeper, we uncovered another chilling truth. The items sold on the website Timu were indeed manufactured in China using slave labor, exploiting vulnerable individuals for profit. The Wigers, who were a large group of people living in a providence of China, relegated to the confines of slave labor camps and unhealthy working and living conditions and succumbed to torturous activities. Armed with our unwavering wit, intuition, and determination, I, yours truly and the Web Renegades set out to bring the perpetrators to justice. With each clue we uncovered, we all drew closer to unraveling the intricate web of corruption

7:43 that threatened the privacy and security of countless individuals worldwide. Some of us purchased burner phones, installed the shopping app and watched what happened. Sure enough, all it took was inputting the user information and the texts began to infiltrate our messages with deals and incentives to get discounts. Our phones went black for hours after we downloaded the app. As we could only imagine the information they were getting from us. Everyone's privacy was at stake. We found out that they weren't making money on the products. No, they were making money on getting everybody's personal private information off of their phones by way of using the TMU app.

8:29 We suspected this all along, but we needed to ask where was the information going. With our highly knowledgeable internal computer team part of the Renegades, we traced it back to the CCP Technology Information System CTIS. We had to do everything on the down low, because we could get in trouble for what we were finding out. Frankly, we were worried for our safety as we kept finding out more and more. Then a kind of cool thing happened. We met, quite by mistake, a man who was anonymous, of course they're all anonymous, who could and would help us. He was French Chinese. We obtained his services to go in as an investor for this company, a powerful elite with a big purse. We needed him to unlock the back door to the servers and data banks that had all the information of consumers globally, destroy the data banks and bring consumerism and the capitalist system back to the western countries where it belonged, and finally to take down the CCP that was already choking citizens worldwide. As the stakes grew higher and the danger loomed closer, we detectives and truth seekers raised against time to dismantle the operation and protect innocent lives from falling victim to the sinister forces at play. We made a pact in the beginning to take away any stranglehold any government had on the

10:00 innocent population of the world. And this was it, after all. Sovereignty of all people was key to living a wonderful life free from the powers that were controlling us all. Starting with one company, we found more with the same structure and malware in place, and indeed the case spread to a multi level system of corruption by using malware to get everyone's private information off of their phone. This was rotten to the core. They the demons, disarming and infiltrating the world with despicable, evil, diabolical plans. They only wanted our information and our money, so we had no power.

10:43 I must say, this case was rattled with twists and turns as we all found ourselves going deeper into rabbit holes that seemingly had no end. But finally it was over as quickly as it began. My usual takedown involved interviews, but this time on mainstream media. What reporters were almost immediately outside my apartment as I and the other renegades made several trips to the courthouse to testify on live TV. We all web renegades and the global population got to cheer as we all saw the monsters and handcuffs being charged and going right to jail, hopefully for a long time or forever, but for now we smiled we cheered, We raised a glass of whatever we had in happiness, And so it was. I and the Web renegades proved that the pursuit of truth knows no bounds, even in the darkest corners in the modern day digital world. Onward we go,