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Artists Against 419 Releases Mugu Marauder

Posted by timothy on from the satisfying-anwers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Similar in scope to the (now defunct) screensaver created by Lycos that targeted spam sites, the newly-released Mugu Marauder is intended to take fraudulent bank sites off the air by sponging up their bandwidth. Mugu Marauder can be downloaded at www.aa419.org/mm/ It's currently only available for Windows, though a Linux port is allegedly in the works."

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  1. Re:another dumb idea by ForestGrump · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The idea behind AA419 DDOS is that the hosting providers have been either unresponsive or unwilling to pull their accounts.

    The extreme measure is to consume the alloted bandwidth to the account and thus take the fake bank offline.

    Grump

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    Is it true that more people vote for the winner of American Idol, than vote for the president? -Ali G.
  2. Re:FP by Jugalator · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Beware of getting slammed by your ISP with a "friendly" letter, after consuming tons of bandwidth using something like this.

    So, how much data do you send/receive?

    It's hard to judge the relevancy of what you say without knowing that.

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    Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
  3. Why a binary? by eddy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    >It's currently only available for Windows,

    Why? I once saw a webpage that did this using only javascript. A simple page reload would give you updated arrays of images which your browser then loaded over and over and over again to exhaust the spamvertized sites bandwidth.

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    Belief is the currency of delusion.
  4. Re:FP by Jugalator · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Off-topic? Maybe I should clarify:

    With "you" I meant "you as a user of this tool".

    So...

    How much data do this software transfer?

    1 MB / month? As much as it can?

    This is highly relevant to the "getting slammed by ISP for consuming tons of bandwidth", especially since this software may not consume "tons of bandwidth" at all. It would be very helpful to know how much it consumes.

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    Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
  5. Maybe you mean this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    >I once saw a webpage

    KaBas fake p2p site killer: [url]http://biphome.spray.se/k.b.e/scamsiteattack. html[/url]

  6. Apparently... by Tuxedo+Jack · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It assigns a UID when the installer is run.

    Each one is something like this:

    620ad934fc97bebb65f77bc883211351

    That makes me wonder - just what does each one represent?

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    Striking fear in the authors of godawful fanfiction, I am here, appearing in darkness, Tuxedo Jack!
  7. Spamming back the scammers? by Serious+Simon · · Score: 5, Interesting
    What about a program that enables you to automatically send fake responses to a 419-scam e-mail, using different FROM: addresses and variable contents, so they cannot be easily identified as such?

    Imagine a 419-scammer sitting in an internet café in Lagos, getting thousands and thousands of mails appearing to be from people genuinely interested in the proposal, and having to follow up on them all just in case one or two are from real persons...

  8. Why the pan? by Joseph_Daniel_Zukige · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The implementation sucks. Who needs a screensaver?

    But there's a seed of a good idea here, if you throttle it. It would not take any serious bandwidth hogging to crud up the phishing net with data that the phisher has to carefully check by hand because it could lead the police to him/her. Likewise the spammers. Eat their profits by eating their time.

    Taking networks down to squash the cockroach is bad, but there is no reason not to lay a little boric acid out, so to speak.

  9. Re:Ha! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Better yet, let's scam the scammer...

  10. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  11. Re:As always the "experts" assume too much. by mugu_marauder · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I never said I was a cop.

    The sorry thing is that apart from South Africa, law enforcement is useless when it comes to enforcing or even recognising 419 fraud.

    Case in point; One of our members had compiled an tracked down a 419 gang operating in the UK. This evidence was taken to the MET who promptly did nothing. The evidence was full correspondence, details of bank accounts owned by the gang, phone numbers, photographs of the gang and their location. And you know what happened, NOTHING!!!

    Well, I lie, not exactly nothing, because of the inaction of the MET in acting on the information, this gang managed to extract over 16,000 US dollars out of a victim in Canada.

    Now, I don't know about you but something like this really pisses me off and we see it daily, so before you attempt to claim the high moral ground on us take another look at yourself and ask what have I done in the last week to help out others.

  12. anonymous by glassesmonkey · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Seems to me that filling their dB with useless information would be more effective. (Increasing the victim to fake ratio). These forms are where they are actually taking bank acct numbers. Taking their bandwidth is s temporary band-aid when they are opening webhosting accounts for free, or at most $5.

    Couldn't someone make a bookmarklet or javascript to fill forms with fake info? Here are some of the forms they use to get personal information.

    http://www.raboswiss.com/housec/ACCSETUP.HTM
    http://www.swissroyallbank.com/onlinebanking/getst art.php
    http://www.kashbankcorp.com/contact_us.php
    http://www.alphapbonline.com/aibb/online_servces.h tm
    http://www.alliance-ctb.com/ebank/apply.asp
    http://www.libertystrongholdgroup.com/aindex.html
    http://www.fichnet.net/contact.php