Anti-Scammers Become Storm Botnet Victims

capnkr writes "It looks like the efforts of the anti-scammers at sites like 419eater, Scamwarners, Artists Against 419, and possibly others have become the target of the Storm botnet. Spamnation has a post about it, and as of this writing none of the above listed sites are responding. Spamnation reports that CastleCops and other anti-spam forums are being DDoSed as well. Sounds like a massive, concerted effort against the folks who are fighting the good fight. Although I hate it for the owners and admins of the above sites, I think it shows without a doubt that their efforts to 'get back' at the scammers are working."

Comments

craigslist scammers

[digitalsushi]

I screwed with a craigslist scammer this week. It was sorta fun.

http://digitalsushi.com/goraku/fakecheck/story.htm l

Getting him to mail a check made out to "Pownd Uholot" was entertaining. :)

Re:Grey Hat solution

[budgenator]

There was a great disturbance in the force, it was if 50 million zombies all died as one. Then suddenly they returned in their pristine and un-patched state, and then suddenly update.windows.com went super-nova and imploded into a black hole.

Re:interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

>>>> REPOST THIS IF U HATE ABORTION

I do, usually. But in your case the post-natal variety seems fitting.

Re:More than just DDoS

[Short Circuit]

I thought that webserver looked poorly configured...

Re:Grey Hat solution

[Anonymous Brave Guy]

Ah, a plan with no drawbacks... :-)