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Anti-Fraud sites under attack

September 7th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Several of the main sites dedicated to fighting online scams are currently inaccessible because of a “Denial of service” (DoS) attack.
Fraudwatchers.com, aa419.org, 419eater.com and occassionally thescambaiter.com have been offline. Thescambaiter.com and 419eater.com are two of the oldest sites that fight “419″ scams (named of the section in the Nigerian penal code that prohibits fraud). […]

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Tags: 419 · Computers · botnets