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419 Scam Blow-by-Blow

Posted by michael on from the school-of-hard-knocks dept.

timbos writes "Check out this six-page dissection of a 419 scam at The Register. In particular, the fake banking site that the fraudsters set up is interesting..."

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  1. Re:1-419-COM-CAST. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
    Moderators please note: this was an attempt at humor.

    If you have to mention it, your attempt failed.

  2. Re:419 is Ohio by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes! There several things that are out there to help promote knowledge about these types of scams. There are a couple of websites this:
    1) http://www.secretservice.gov/alert419.shtml : website from the Secret Service providing info about the 419 scam

    2)www.419eater.com : this website is dedicated to scambaiting and information about 419. Includes a forum. "scambaiting" is a term used often to describe when someone pretends to be interested in a scam, but tries to waste as much of the scammer's time and resources as possible, in an attempt to keep him busy on the scambaiter, rather then on a potential victim

    3) Scamorama.com : similar to 419eater.com. Includes news on 419 scams, forum as well.

    4) aa419.org : this is dedicated to attacking 419 scammers with websites. It does this by stealing bandwidth from scammer websites, fake banks, etc. For example, the one listed in this article, www.umicb.com, is a fake bank. This site does it by taking images from the fakebank's websites, and then reloading its webpage, thus stealing bandwidth. At the first of every month, there is a 419 "Flash mob", where about a dozen or so fake bank sites' images are loaded to a specific page, and then many, many people go to these sites, in an attempt to shut down as many sites as possible.

    5) if you do a search on google for "419 scam", there are also lots of sites.