Government Surveillance and Digital Sabotage: How DNS Poisoning, Meta’s Fraud Infrastructure, and Library of Congress Hacks Expose Systemic Corruption

HACKED: THE SAGA #61 Date: November 26, 2025 Duration: 1:11:00 min
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🔥 Key Revelations

  • Content theft and intellectual property fraud by Houston
    Baptist University associates
  • Government contractor involvement in digital attacks
  • FBI and DOJ non-response to 200-page report
  • Hugo Lamy/UseStyle.ai/Conversion.ai money laundering suspicions
  • DNS poisoning and infrastructure-level attacks
  • Proton Mail as essential security tool against government surveillance
  • Meta’s deliberate fraud infrastructure and sock puppet networks
  • Meta child safety lawsuit—evidence Meta’s defense is false
  • Amazon’s counterfeit-enabling structure
  • Library of Congress database corruption to legitimize counterfeits
  • CS Lewis book counterfeits taking over buy boxes
  • Digital security best practices and lessons learned
  • Federal Tort Claims Act liability for government agencies
  • Platform accountability for fraud infrastructure

Episode Summary

In this explosive update to the Hacked Saga series, independent journalist Carla Alvarez presents documented evidence of government-level digital sabotage, including live DNS poisoning attacks, Meta’s systematic enablement of fraud through sock puppet accounts, and the shocking corruption of CS Lewis metadata at the Library of Congress to legitimize counterfeits.

After three weeks of escalating attacks following her reports to federal authorities, Carla reveals how UseStyle.ai’s suspicious funding coincided with her email lockdown, why Meta knowingly operates fraud infrastructure (with 200+ companies aware her account was fake), and critical security practices that saved her communications.

This isn’t conspiracy theory—it’s documented sabotage with receipts, exposing how platforms like Meta and Amazon are structurally designed for fraud while federal agencies ignore evidence of crimes committed by government contractors.

📍 Key Moments

00:42:32- "Meta KNEW My Account Was Fake"
01:02:29- "They Hacked the Library of Congress to Legitimize Counterfeits"
00:21:40- "Same Day as My Email Lockdown: July 30th Funding"
00:28:35- "If I Had Listened: They Stole everything through Google Password Manager"
00:46:51- "17 Strikes for Sex Trafficking on Meta"
00:52:40- "DNS Poisoning Proof—Captured Today"
00:56:20- "They Deleted My 2025 Folder—Between Last Night and This Morning"
00:48:12- "I Was a Sunday School Teacher for Hundreds of Kids—They Stole That Identity"
00:35:12-"Couldn't Access Internet on AT&T phone —Even on WiFi Without VPN

Detailed Show Notes

Introduction: The Hacked Saga Explained

Timestamp: [00:00:12 – 00:08:40]

  • Content theft by Houston Baptist University associates beginning in
    2019
  • AI model created from stolen Christian content (Bible studies, book
    reviews)
  • Sabotage heavily escalated in 2021 to cover plagiarism
  • December 2023: Serious hacking begins, nearly 2 years of attacks
  • August 4, 2024: First 3-hour livestream exposing the situation
  • 200-page report submitted to FBI and Department of Justice with no
    response
  • Facebook account locked within 3 hours of posting YouTube analytics
    evidence
  • Moved to sock puppet account that had been impersonating since 2013
  • All social media connections were fake accounts/impersonations
  • Google contacts hacked in June 2024, data changed
  • Pattern: authorities do nothing, attacks escalate every time evidence
    is reported

The Tell is Always in the Response

Timestamp: [00:08:40 – 00:12:08]

  • Audio interference during streams correlates with sensitive topics
  • What they try to cover up reveals what they’re hiding
  • August 18, 2024: Resigned from Unexpected Journal board
  • No association since then, yet they faked affiliation through May 2025
  • Posts criticizing Ted Cruz (2017) were heavily targeted
  • Realized August 22nd Cruz was running for reelection—timing suspicious
  • Discovering new attacks and evidence continues through today
  • Initial approach: didn’t name suspects until authorities failed to act
  • Public naming only after authorities proved corrupt, lazy,
    incompetent, or complicit

Hugo Lamy and the UseStyle.ai Connection

Timestamp: [00:12:08 – 00:20:00]

  • Square account revealed unauthorized contacts/appointments never
    received
  • Hugo Lamy contact from usestyle.ai scheduled October 2023
  • October 2023 timing coincides with escalation of serious plots
  • UseStyle.ai redirects to Conversion.ai
  • Twitter saw the redirect but Carla was blocked from viewing
  • USA Today puff piece for Hugo Lamy (paid PR through Gannett Company)
  • Same Gannett owns Statesman Journal connected to fraudulent sheriff’s
    sale
  • Article forbidden for Carla to access (403 error)
  • Puff piece structure eerily similar to article Carla wrote for Dr.
    Michael Wynn
  • Press releases Carla wrote for March of Remembrance mostly
    deleted/missing
  • Theory: They built PR model from stolen writing samples

Red Flags: UseStyle.ai/Conversion.ai as Money Laundering Front

Timestamp: [00:20:00 – 00:26:08]

  • Conversion.ai website lacks distinct target market
  • Graphics appear copied from MailerLite automation flows
  • Company doesn’t appear legitimate upon investigation
  • Phone stolen July 28th, likely cloned
  • Fastmail account immediately compromised within 2 hours
  • Switched to Proton Mail July 30th
  • Emails flowing normally for 2 days, then locked down July 30th
  • Conversion.ai received venture funding from Abstract Ventures on July
    30th—same day
  • “Could be coincidence” but pattern of blocking around Hugo Lamy
    mentions is telling
  • Article about Hugo Lamy now forbidden/blocked from access

Reputation Predators: Identity Confusion as a Weapon

Timestamp: [00:22:00 – 00:24:00]

  • Previous stream:Erasing Michael Ward” explained manipulation tactics
  • Reputation predators place mentions to confuse one person with another
  • AI summaries conflate identities by design
  • David Bower’s identity conflated with sock puppet persona
  • Sock puppet published book written from real David Bower’s work
  • UseStyle.ai/Conversion.ai siphoning credibility from legitimate
    Style.AI
  • Legitimate Style.AI acquired by Google-associated entity
  • Different spelling used to create confusion
  • Hugo Lamy likely the “tech person” for academic content thieves
  • Claim: Websites generated in 3 minutes = stolen content source

Government Contractors and FBI Negligence

Timestamp: [00:24:00 – 00:26:08]

  • Sabotage existed before, but escalated after contacting FBI
  • Majority of damage came AFTER reporting to authorities
  • FBI won’t respond despite multiple reports
  • Can’t sue FBI for surveillance, BUT can sue government contractors
  • Contractors committing crimes, authorities aware, did nothing
  • Should have fired and prosecuted contractors—instead covered for them
  • Federal government liable under FTCA (Federal Tort Claims Act)
  • Every non-responsive agency creates additional claims
  • “Desperate to block communication” strategy backfiring

Protecting Your Digital Identity: Critical Security Lessons

Timestamp: [00:26:08 – 00:30:08]

  • Friend’s advice in early days: reformat phone, never use Google
    Password Manager
  • Didn’t listen initially—resulted in every account stolen
  • Phone reformatting didn’t help—hack came through Google Play Store and
    carrier level
  • Android users compromised at carrier/Play Store level are “screwed”
  • CRITICAL: Never use Google Password Manager
  • All passwords stolen via Google Password Manager access
  • Lesson: “If I had listened to him, I would not have had that problem”

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Why Proton Mail: The Swiss Encryption Advantage

Timestamp: [00:30:08 – 00:35:03]

  • Fastmail is Australian, part of Five Eyes intelligence sharing
  • Proton is Swiss-based, does not share information with US government
  • US government cannot access encrypted Proton data
  • Federal contractors using government resources can’t breach Swiss
    encryption
  • When switched to Proton: emails started coming through normally
  • Confirmed previous email embargo suspicions
  • Claude and Grok AI suggested infrastructure-level block requiring
    federal government access
  • October: Kit (email service) bounced Proton email as “bad email”—proof
    of block
  • Any email connected to Carla gets added to block list
  • Proton Pass built-in alias feature discovered later

Proton’s Simple Login: The Workaround Solution

Timestamp: [00:32:04 – 00:38:00]

  • Simple Login integrates with Proton accounts
  • Can create unlimited aliases directing to real email
  • Domain names embargoed, but aliases bypass blocks
  • Can create aliases on custom domains (if not embargoed)
  • Example: quotes@supersweeper.com assigned to route anywhere
  • Reverse aliases allow sending FROM alias addresses
  • “Super cool” discovery made while trying to bypass blocks
  • AT&T phone: couldn’t connect to internet even on WiFi with SIM
    removed
  • Required non-US IP address via VPN just to access internet
  • Proton suite: Mail, Drive, VPN, Pass, Calendar, Wallet, Lumo AI
  • QR code login feature prevents keylogger capture on compromised
    devices
  • Change passwords after every login using Proton Pass generator
  • Black Friday sale: 30% off Proton services

Why Everyone is a Target

Timestamp: [00:37:17 – 00:39:00]

  • “I didn’t think I needed anything extreme either”
  • Reality: Anyone with identity, influence, and relationships is a
    target
  • Moving away from Google services as much as possible
  • Proton Drive works better in browser than app
  • This level of security isn’t paranoia—it’s necessary
  • “If you are a person with your own identity in your own life and you
    have a circle of friends that you have influence and relationships
    among, you’re a target”
Court Filings Allege Meta Downplayed Risks to Children and Misled the Public
From Time Magazine

Court Filings Allege Meta Downplayed Risks to Children and Misled the Public

Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated, according to a court filing unsealed Friday. In a plaintiffs’ brief filed as part of a major lawsuit against four social media companies, Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being Vaishnavi Jayakumar testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn that the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that reportedly engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
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Meta’s Fraud Infrastructure Exposed

Timestamp: [00:39:00 – 00:46:20]

  • Account had been impersonating Carla since 2013
  • Good persona to imitate: involved in many groups, organized events
  • Name recognition without personal knowledge = ideal identity theft
    target
  • Original Facebook: CMAlvarez, moved to sock puppet: CarlaAlvarez
  • Activity log showed impersonation since 2013 with screenshots as proof
  • Login activity: Multiple logins in 24 hours in Baytown,
    TX—”onboarding” people
  • Logins all over the country—obviously used for coordinated fake
    engagement
  • Not foreign actors: “Local people that knew me and that’s why they
    stole my identity”

The 200 Company Bombshell

Timestamp: [00:42:00 – 00:46:20]

  • Meta has advertiser interface where businesses upload customer lists
  • Can create “exclude lists” to avoid advertising to existing customers
  • Can create “include lists” to target specific audiences
  • Sock puppet account on 200+ company exclude lists
  • ALL 200+ companies KNEW account was fake—didn’t waste ad spend
  • Two companies specifically: Meta and Amazon both had account on
    exclude list
  • Meta KNEW account was fake—not a secret
  • “Clean rooms” where companies share fake account information in
    networks
  • Meta’s business model DEPENDS on fake accounts for fake engagement
  • Fake accounts comment on ads to make them appear effective
  • Built-in feature allows moving information between accounts (used in
    hijacking)
  • Activity log altered AFTER hijacking—proves continued Meta access to
    account
  • Alterations made hijacking more obvious, proving ongoing Meta
    complicity

WhatsApp Impersonation

Timestamp: [00:48:00 – 00:51:40]

  • Carrier-level hack made phone appear as Samsung (was Google Pixel on
    Metro PCS)
  • Calls filtered rather than received directly
  • WhatsApp messages from Afghan family never received
  • Family sent airport departure photos from Pakistan—never delivered
  • Discovered months later: family member said “I’m in Tennessee”—no
    warning received
  • They sent messages thinking Carla received them
  • Messages were being received by impersonators on her WhatsApp
  • Structure built for fraud—Meta allows inside access to certain
    accounts
  • “Predators, identity thieves, and thieves—this is who Meta is giving
    keys to the platform”

The Meta Lawsuit: What They’re Hiding

Timestamp: [00:46:20 – 00:52:36]

  • Time Magazine article: Court filings allege Meta downplayed child
    safety risks
  • Meta claims ignorance of predators targeting children on platforms
  • Instagram’s former head of safety Vashane Jentkumar testimony (joined
    2020)
  • Shocked to learn Meta had 17-strike policy for sex trafficking
    accounts
  • Accounts reported for human trafficking for sex received 17 chances
    before action
  • Meta knows when trafficking reported multiple times—does nothing
  • Carla’s evidence proves it’s worse than lawsuit attorneys know
  • Sunday school teacher for 6 years (3rd grade), VBS teacher for 8 years
  • Taught hundreds of kids at largest church in community
  • Impersonation for decade gave predators access to appearance of
    trusted teacher relationship
  • Recent warning: harmful link posted in Facebook group AS Carla
  • Posted by impersonators while real account was blocked from seeing
    group
  • Meta knew (exclude list proof) but did nothing
  • “Meta just allows it because it helps boost their ads”

DNS Poisoning: Today’s Smoking Gun

Timestamp: [00:52:36 – 00:56:16]

  • Site not loading correctly 2 weeks ago—CSS/styles corrupted
  • Domain registered at NameCheap, DNS managed through Cloudflare
  • Cloudflare cloaks actual IP address, protects against denial of
    service attacks
  • Emails blocked somehow at infrastructure level
  • Visited own site on new IP/Tor—clearly diverted, different versions
    served
  • Discovered DNSSEC option today (additional DNS security against
    spoofing)
  • WhatsmyDNS.net check: IP addresses resolving differently across world
    servers
  • Should all be same (only 2 Cloudflare nameservers set)
  • 188.x.x.x IP addresses appearing—alternate unauthorized IPs
  • Blocked in certain countries
  • “State level actors” (nations) can redirect web traffic according to
    security article
  • This is evidence of that exact attack happening
  • Elastic Email log shows delivery failed/successful for SAME emails
  • Block on server/infrastructure level proven—not from Proton

Ongoing Attacks: They Deleted My 2025 Folder

Timestamp: [00:56:16 – 00:59:02]

  • Uses Scrivener for all writing and organization
  • Between 5 pm previous night and noon today: 2025 folder deleted
  • Folder contained all YouTube video organization
  • Categories, files, subfiles with descriptions, links, all video
    information
  • Had backup folder—comparison shows entire 2025 deleted
  • “Literally non-stop” attacks
  • Attack happened TODAY—day of stream
  • FBI could have stopped all of this in April 2024 if they’d
    investigated
  • “None of this would have happened” if authorities had done their job

The CS Lewis Metadata Corruption Scandal

Timestamp: [00:59:02 – 01:08:00]

  • Just updating Amazon affiliate link for Till We Have Faces review
  • Noticed difference between product page cover and authentic cover
  • HarperCollins official covers: consistent artistic style across Lewis
    books
  • Scripty titles, serif font for author name, page-tear graphic element
  • Counterfeits: Different fonts, wrong styling, scanning authentic
    covers poorly
  • Till We Have Faces showing counterfeit on product detail page
  • “Signature Classics” 8-volume set—counterfeit using fake collection
    name
  • Yesterday: couldn’t find clean listing for ANY Lewis book
  • Today: Some cleaned up after Twitter tagging (HarperCollins and
    Amazon)
  • Screwscrape Letters, The Great Divorce—counterfeits everywhere
    (yesterday)
  • The Great Divorce now showing authentic cover (today)

Library of Congress Database Compromised

Timestamp: [01:02:29 – 01:06:00]

  • HarperCollins own website showed counterfeits for paperback versions
  • HarperCollins UK and US sites: eBook had real cover, paperback had
    fake
  • Library of Congress metadata CORRUPTED—showing counterfeit covers
  • Theory 1: HarperCollins pulls data from Library of Congress, not
    uploading own creative
  • Theory 2: Alternate version of HarperCollins site being served (like
    happens to Carla)
  • Regardless: US federal government database hacked by criminals
  • Fake covers made to look original through Library of Congress
    corruption
  • Has photos/screenshots from yesterday before cleanup
  • Been reporting fakes using “report issue with seller” option—nothing
    happened
  • After Twitter tagging campaign: Amazon started cleanup
  • Black Friday: Counterfeits running sales on Lewis books

Amazon’s Fraud-Enabling Structure

Timestamp: [01:06:00 – 01:09:16]

  • ISBN system: same ISBN = same bin in warehouse
  • Example: 100 books in bin—70 authentic HarperCollins, 30 counterfeits
  • Counterfeiter runs low prices, gets the buy box
  • Buy box shows fake cover BUT might ship authentic book from shared bin
  • “Doesn’t make sense to me, none of it makes sense”
  • Counterfeiters claiming same ISBN as authentic books
  • Other listings: publishing Lewis as if out of copyright (they’re NOT)
  • Not getting flagged despite obvious infringement
  • Zuckerberg and Bezos constantly laying off employees
  • Can’t get actual human help on Meta (unless pay $45-50/month for
    verification)
  • “$50 a month shakedown” to prevent identity theft
  • “Platforms for fraud” while cutting workers
  • “Gross negligence—they should be held accountable”

Closing: Document Everything

Timestamp: [01:09:16 – 01:11:18]

  • If you receive counterfeits: report them (guide on website)
  • “Authorities don’t really do anything about it”
  • Fraud is “through the roof”
  • Every single day brings new attacks, all documented
  • To every agency that ignored reports: “You are going to regret it”
  • “This isn’t about me anymore”—exposes systemic fraud
  • Meta, Amazon, federal database manipulation
  • “If they’ll corrupt CS Lewis, they’ll corrupt anything”
  • Sign up for newsletter at raisedtowalk.org
  • Check spam if confirmation doesn’t arrive
  • Track her down on Signal if email fails
  • Proton Black Friday: 30% off most services
  • Proton affiliate link on stream description
  • “Literally the only thing keeping me” functioning while “government is
    after you”
  • “Document everything—every single one of you is going to wish you
    weren’t such shady crooks”

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    Discussion & Engagement

    💬 Discussion Questions

    Introduction & Background

    • What are the implications when federal authorities ignore 200-page
      reports with evidence of crimes?
    • How does the pattern of “attacks escalate when evidence is reported”
      suggest coordination?
    • What does it mean when all social media connections turn out to be
      impersonation accounts?

    Hugo Lamy Connection

    • What red flags indicate UseStyle.ai/Conversion.ai might be a money
      laundering front?
    • How significant is the timing coincidence between July 30th funding
      and July 30th email lockdown?
    • What does the Gannett Company connection between USA Today and
      Statesman Journal suggest?
    • How do “reputation predators” use identity confusion as a weapon?

    Digital Security

    • Why is Google Password Manager specifically dangerous for targeted
      individuals?
    • What’s the difference between Five Eyes and Swiss encryption
      jurisdiction?
    • How does carrier-level and Play Store hacking defeat traditional
      security measures?
    • Should average people be using Proton-level security, or only targeted
      individuals?

    Meta’s Fraud Infrastructure

    • What does it mean that 200+ companies had a fake account on exclude
      lists?
    • How does Meta’s 17-strike policy for sex trafficking accounts reveal
      priorities?
    • What are the implications of Meta KNOWING an account is fake but
      allowing impersonation?
    • How does the sock puppet network structure actually benefit Meta’s
      business model?
    • What responsibility do platforms have when they provide “inside
      access” to certain accounts?

    DNS Poisoning

    • What does “state-level actor” capability say about who’s behind these
      attacks?
    • How can federal contractors use government resources for personal
      vendettas?
    • What recourse exists under Federal Tort Claims Act when agencies don’t
      respond?

    CS Lewis Counterfeits

    • Why would criminals bother corrupting Library of Congress
      metadata?
    • How does Amazon’s ISBN bin system enable counterfeit laundering?
    • What does it mean when HarperCollins’ own website shows counterfeit
      covers?
    • Should platforms be liable when their structure enables fraud by
      design?
    • Why target a dead author’s legacy—what does that reveal about
      information control?

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    <a href="https://raisedtowalk.org/author/carla/" target="_self">Carla Alvarez</a>

    Carla Alvarez

    Carla Alvarez is the founder of Raised to Walk and a founding board member of An Unexpected Journal, a Communications Director at Legacy Marketing Services where she uses her BS in Marketing to create communication strategies for business, and an unlikely case manager and Bible Study teacher for the Afghan Christians of Kabul Hope Latest Series: Hacked: the Saga How an oily politician and a band of intellectual property and identity thieves conspired to erase a third-grade Sunday school teacher, Read more of her work on Google Scholar and Substack or contact her to write for you.

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