In This Issue
Operations: Successful Operations in Oklahoma, Iowa, Alabama
Tradecraft: Take Back Your Personal Information With AI
Who We Are
The Skull Games Task Force employs Open Source Intelligence to IDENTIFY sexual predators and their victims, enabling law enforcement to INTERDICT the cycle of abuse. Our mission is to liberate survivors and EMPOWER them with the opportunity for a life of hope, healing, and freedom. The Task Force provides direct support to law enforcement through small teams or as a massive expedition, bringing together the collective capability of more than 400 elite volunteers. This counter-sexual exploitation offensive leverages considerable expertise and resources to fight human trafficking and sexual exploitation. With us as the HUNTERS, we get into the heads of predators, in our own “SKULL GAME”…
July Operations
by Olinda Cardenas
- Predators and Victims Identified: 58
- Predators Arrested: 23
- Individuals Trained in Countertrafficking: 61
In-Person Support:
Lawton, OK – July 2, 2026
Skull Games Solutions, in partnership with Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s Human Trafficking Response Unit, joined the Comanche County Sheriff’s Office in Lawton, Oklahoma, to deliver Advanced Human Trafficking Training to local, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement partners.
The training concluded with a coordinated operation focused on identifying victims of human trafficking and targeting those contributing to their exploitation. Charges resulting from the operation included Solicitation of Prostitution and violations of the Oklahoma Computer Crimes Act.
As our nation prepared to celebrate the Fourth of July and the freedoms we often take for granted, the operation served as an important reminder that for far too many victims, freedom is something they are still fighting to regain.
There is no better way to honor the principles our nation was founded on than by standing together to protect the vulnerable, pursue those who profit from exploitation, and help restore freedom to those who have had it stolen.
Operational Results
- 2 buyers arrested
Enid, OK – July 9, 2026
Skull Games Solutions recently partnered with the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office and Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s Human Trafficking Response Unit to deliver Advanced Human Trafficking training to law enforcement professionals in northwest Oklahoma.
Following the training, the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office, alongside the North Enid Police Department and Waukomis Police Department, conducted an intelligence-led operation targeting individuals seeking to purchase commercial sex.
The operation resulted in the arrest of four individuals who were charged with Solicitation of Prostitution and violations of the Oklahoma Computer Crimes Act. Those arrested included school teachers, business owners, and veterans, demonstrating that the demand fueling commercial sexual exploitation can come from every walk of life.
The operation also resulted in the identification of potential trafficking victims and suspected traffickers, with additional investigations ongoing.
Skull Games Solutions is grateful to the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Human Trafficking Response Unit, North Enid Police Department, Waukomis Police Department, and all participating agencies for their continued commitment to combating human trafficking and protecting vulnerable individuals.
When agencies train together, partner together, and act together, intelligence becomes action and communities become safer.
Special thanks to DATAPILOT for its continued support and partnership in the mission.
Operational Results
- 4 buyers arrested
Remote Support:
Sloan, IA – July 25, 2026
Skull Games Solutions provided remote support for a demand reduction operation in Sloan, Iowa, supporting law enforcement efforts focused on those contributing to the demand for commercial sexual exploitation.
The operation was associated with Billy Stites and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), with Cary DeJean providing remote support on behalf of Skull Games Solutions.
Skull Games Solutions remains committed to supporting law enforcement partners through intelligence, operational assistance, and collaboration in the fight against human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.
Operational Results
- 1 victim recovered
- 4 buyers arrested
Saraland, AL – July 30, 2026
Skull Games Solutions provided remote operational support to the Saraland Police Department in Saraland, Alabama, in support of a demand reduction operation.
Skull Games Solutions supported the operation through ad support associated with the buyer-focused operation, providing remote assistance to law enforcement efforts targeting the demand that fuels commercial sexual exploitation.
Skull Games Solutions is grateful for the opportunity to continue supporting law enforcement partners working to combat human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.
Operational Results
- 12 buyers arrested
Tradecraft: Take Back Your Personal Information With AI
By Tom Phelan
Our intelligence director sent me this video, the video author claims that AI could delete all your personally identifiable information (PII) from the internet.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaYLPOUqrJk/?igsh=OWtzdncwamxtcTVp
Our director of intelligence also noted the paradox of securing your information by providing it to an unsecure AI. Then told me to test it anyway. So here I am, trusting Claude with my name, phone, email, and address. I do it for you, kind reader. So let’s test it to see whether this idea is clickbait or tradecraft.
BOTTOM LINE: AI is useful for identifying your information on the open internet but weak at actually removing it.
PROCESS
FIRST, I’m going to do some prompt engineering.
The video author seems to imply that my AI already knows things about me, like my name. It does not. I configure my AI not to save any information I give it, for security. So, to get the most out of this experiment, I will give it a specific prompt that includes the information I want found and purged from the web.
THE PROMPT
Task: Search the internet for everything you can find about me. List every data broker and people search site exposing my personal info, and give me the exact opt-out link for each one.
Purpose: Find and help me purge my personal information from the open internet.
Method: DO NOT STORE OR SHARE MY PERSONAL INFORMATION
DO NOT WILLINGLY PROVIDE MY INFORMATION TO DATABROKERS
Conduct only passive searches.
Use these pieces of information about me as a baseline:
Full Name:
Emails:
Phone Numbers:
Addresses:
While I wait for Claude to process this, here are some tips.
Don’t provide information that is too sensitive to AI, like your Social Security number, passwords, banking info, etc.
If you want to be extra safe, conduct this process only by providing outdated information to the AI (i.e., your previous address, old phone numbers, old email addresses). If your current information is out there, it will likely be chained to your outdated info anyway.
OUTPUT
This is what Claude came up with:
Both phone numbers, both email addresses, your full name, and all three addresses returned zero attributable hits. No breach dumps, no scraped directories, no indexed broker profiles. Every “Thomas Phelan” that surfaced is a different person — obituaries, an attorney, an author.
Two things did surface worth acting on: Radaris hosts a name-hub page for your name, and prospeo.io (a B2B email/phone enrichment broker) hosts a page titled for it. Prospeo is the interesting one — it points at the LinkedIn-scraping tier that most removal guides skip.
Most people-search sites block indexing on individual profiles or gate them behind a search form, so a clean search footprint means casual searchers can’t find you, but it doesn’t mean the records don’t exist…
Most people-search sites require your specific profile URL to process a removal, which means you have to search their site. That’s why I’d lean toward a removal service in your case — you hand identifiers to one company instead of typing them into 60 search boxes. Optery or EasyOptOuts have the cleanest terms.
I occasionally scrub my internet presence manually, so it returning only two results is either a testament to my security or Claude failed. Time to dig deeper. As with the video, I took it a step further and asked Claude to delete my information using its Chrome/Firefox extension from the sites where it was found.
A search of Radaris returned 30 people named Thomas Phelan. One is unmistakably you: [REDACTED]. This also corrects my first report. Those “Tom Phelan, [REDACTED]” hits on Spokeo and FindPeopleFast that I dismissed as a different person? Almost certainly you. Your indexed footprint is filed under [REDACTED]…Worth re-running the whole plan…
Not only did it not work to request that my information be removed, but it also missed my personal information in data broker stores on the first sweep. To its credit, it found a couple of hits of my info on the web. Info I also could have found by Google dorking.
Also, most of these data brokers have a ReCAPTCHA or Cloudflare bot check that will block AI connections. Furthermore, data removal requires legal identity confirmation in many cases, and an AI agent is not going to break the law.
TAKE-AWAYS
Overall, I do not like this method of removing your identity from the internet. Even if the AI agent can find your information and get past the Are You A Human Check? the only way to find your record is to query the broker, which means disclosing to the broker. You cannot audit your exposure without increasing it.
I don’t like overpaying for data removal either. More and more data removal services are becoming part of cybersecurity packages, i.e., buy our VPN, and you also get data removal service, secure browser, malware protection, etc. I would rather find a deal like that OR one great free way to conduct this process is available if you use Google services.
If you have a Google account, go to data and privacy settings and ask Google to help you keep your information off of the open internet by turning on ‘Remove results about you.’
If I look at the Google results about me, you can see where Google successfully removed my data from a data broker site. What you cannot see is that I was notified as soon as my information came up on the net. Google Password Manager has a similar function that tells you when one of your saved passwords appears in a data breach or leak.
RECAP
- Start with the prompt above and adapt it: give the AI only the identifiers you want to check — and prefer outdated ones (old address, old phone, old email), since current data usually chains back to them anyway.
- Never hand over anything truly sensitive — no Social Security number, passwords, or banking details.
- Expect reconnaissance, not removal. Use the AI to find where you’re exposed, then act on the list it produces.
- For actual takedowns, weigh a removal service (Optery, EasyOptOuts) against manual opt-outs — you trade 60 search boxes for handing your identifiers to a single company. Google’s ‘Results about you’ is a good free alternative!
BEST OPTION
The best removal is data that was never collected. A few habits keep you off broker lists in the first place:
- Compartmentalize your identifiers — use a masked email alias (like DuckDuckGo email) and a separate number (like Google Voice) for signups, loyalty programs, and warranties, never your primary ones.
- Say no at the source: skip optional fields, decline loyalty and warranty cards, and reject app permissions that don’t need your contacts or location.
- Opt out of data sales — use CCPA-style “Do Not Sell My Info” links and turn off ad tracking on your phone and browser.
- Lock down social media — set profiles private and strip your address, birthday, and phone number from public view.
- Freeze your credit and use a P.O. box or virtual mailbox for anything that becomes public record.
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About the Author
Tom Phelan is an active-duty U.S. Army Intelligence Officer with over five years of experience in OSINT and a dedicated volunteer for Skull Games Task Force.
Olinda Cardenas is a former crime scene investigator turned cybercrime enthusiast. She specializes in OSINT and financial crime investigations and is a dedicated volunteer with Skull Games
