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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. 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?

    --

    Striking fear in the authors of godawful fanfiction, I am here, appearing in darkness, Tuxedo Jack!
  2. 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...

  3. 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