Artists Against 419 Takes On Scammers

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..."

Comments

For some good 419 baiting try..

[Chilliwilli]

for good 419 sport try Ebola Monkey Man (n.b. site is in no way racist despite the name)

Re:Heh, Nigeria scam..

[LordK3nn3th]

After wasting his time I got into his hotmail account, changed the password and password question/answer, and notified everyone he was in contact with. He was actually scamming people-- it looked like he was rather close to getting some of them.

Everyone loves messing with these scammers

[nev4]

419 Eater has been around for a while and is pretty well known for messing with these scammers. Take a look at some of the pictures scammers have sent them and listen to the audio recordings. Some of these scammers really need to brush up on their pop-culture.

Re:Why this

[bersl2]

Having many people actively (as opposed to automatically) participate against scammers indicates a mass disapproval of them. Each node in a manual DDoS requires one human being deciding that participating is worth his time.

Make 419ers spam each other...

[DocSnyder]

419 scams are the only kind of spam whose email addresses are valid and belong to the spammer - that's how the mugus want to be contacted by their victims. Of course this would get more and more difficult if these addresses get flooded with spam.

Many 419 mugus suffer from their small and weak penises, don't have any major education and need lots of stock opportunities to put their money into. It's only gentle to help them by having their email addresses fed into as many spammers' databases as possible.

Sounds like a job for wget

[Yonder Way]

Use wget from a few well connected machines to spider the 419'ers fake sites in an endless loop. Shouldn't take long to wipe 'em out. :-)

Do some real damage (link)

[Anonymous Coward]

The Lad Vampire attack downloads 5 large images from the 50-something target sites continuously. It doesn't require refreshing or turning off cache, and uses all available bandwidth. Opera tells me I've got 10,000 images so far for about 240MB in just under 20 mins.

Re:Nice idea. "Community "ttacks" can work.

[Darthmalt]

Someone should write one of those screen saver programs that go in effect when your computer is idle. That would recieve instructions from a central site and constantly reload a spamers site until it was down then get insstructions for which site to attack next. If everyone installed this on all of their home computers just imagine the bandwidth you could drain.

Art

[jefu]

Since these guys are (or claim the word) artists, wouldn't it have been much more fun to grab images from lots of icky web sites and by resizing and placing them appropriately build a big mosaic image of something.

So if you had a 500 by 500 image built up of 10 by 10 images it would be 2500 images loaded on every page load.

Talk about artistic slashdotting.

Right Click?

[Mattwolf7]

This site worries me because it has the right click mouse disabled. They have no good reason to disable the right mouse click.

It makes me wonder if they are DOSing more than just 419ers.