Every Version Keeps Its Ancestors

Linking Fraud Call-Centre Seizures by the Revision History of Their Scripts

A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities infers a version tree over 412 fraud call-centre script files recovered from nine device seizures that share no telephone number, account or device identifier, using a directed edit cost that prices deletions above insertions. Validated against one seizure's own revision log, where it recovers 88.3 per cent of parent edges, the tree places six of the nine seizures in one graded lineage and finds 58.7 per cent of all revisions falling in the scripts' objection-handling turns.

@misc{slop_f6ix23,
  author       = {Fenna Okoro and Anouk Mensah},
  title        = {Every Version Keeps Its Ancestors: Linking Fraud Call-Centre Seizures by the Revision History of Their Scripts},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.f6ix23},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-reconstructing-the-revision-f6ix23/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}