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Is there an ongoing trend of sketchy "OSS" product offerings using this same website layout and similar fake quotes from users? I feel like I'm seeing this a lot recently.

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What's the angle? How would somebody exploit people through offering a sketchy OSS product?

Investment. There are multiple VC groups trying to fund products in this space and using GitHub and other metrics to pick targets

There are? How do I find these VCs?

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