Artists Against 419 Takes On Scammers

Posted by timothy on Sunday May 2, 2004 @11:39AM from the more-power-to-you-esteemed-friend dept.

419scammers writes "Hello, The following site is an anti scammers 419 site (plus associated scams) which has started to receive a great deal of publicity in a number of countries national publications. Their fifth international flash mob has now started. Have a look at the monthly flash mob link. Enjoy." An anonymous reader adds "More than 50 identified websites of the Nigeria-Connection are being targeted and the first ones has been already disabled. It was a very bad idea to copy the website of an innocent lawfirm..."

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Verification? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-02 11:49 · Score: 5, Insightful

How do we know we're actually participating in a DDoS against a 419 site and not a legitimate business?

This kind of mob mentality is a little unsettling. I guess it doesn't matter as far as slashdot is concerned though. They'd take down a bus full of nuns if they were a website.