Vigilante Hackers use Old West Tactics for Justice

dismorphic writes "Angered by the growing number of Internet scams, online 'vigilantes' have started to take justice into their own hands by hacking into suspected fraud sites and defacing them. These hackers have targeted fake websites set up to resemble the sites of banks or financial institutions in recent weeks, and have inserted new pages or messages. Some say 'Warning - This was a Scam Site,' or 'This Bank Was Fraudulent and Is Now Removed.'" So maybe it's not a posse of horsemen, but it's still kinda cool that someone is taking care of those who would defraud the public.

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Okay...

[brilinux]

But are they Irish?

I'm not happy about this.

[Halvy]

After all, the quicker someone, anyone puts an end to the illegal (world) bank system, the better off all the poor and working stiffs will be.

The people who are *supposedly* defrauding innocent people, are actually only taking from the rich.

Those rich bastards are not loosing anything anyway (mostly) because the pig-banks will reimburse them.

Think about how much banks contribute to society; some fat bastard sits there in a fancy building, waiting for someone who doesn't need money, to come in and deposit their riches that they stole off the working class stiffs. Then mr. piggy-banker gives the rich man more money so they start another (legal) scam called a *corporation*.

I say use vigilantiism to burn the banks down (or better yet turn them into homeless shelters or clincs for the disabled) and arrest everyone involved with the banking industry for the last 50 years or so (to start out with) and give the 'scammers' a position of authority which they are earning. :)

-- Don't hate me cuz I'm ugly

I agree

[Dancin_Santa]

We don't see enough of the community burning crosses on the lawns of people who are unwanted in our neighborhoods.

Oh, your definition of criminal is different from mine?