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Artists Against 419 Takes On Scammers

Posted by timothy on 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..."

3 of 244 comments (clear)

  1. I don't get it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What exactly is 419?

  2. oops (forgot to actually make the mirror) by pigscanfly.ca · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just in case the server crashes and burns (like they usually do),I have put up a mirror.
    The mirror of http://www.artists-against-419.mugus.com/ is at http://mirrorit.demonmoo.com/r_194/www.artists-aga inst-419.mugus.com/

  3. Re:Heh, Nigeria scam.. by double-oh+three · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anyone else slightly suspicious of the fact that his UID makes it seem like he's a newly created account? Karma-whoring maybe?

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