Scam Baiting

[Paule]

Re: Scam Baiting

whats the thread title pk?

thread
http://forum.419eater.com/forum/view...er=asc&start=0

cam
http://www.camvista.com/england/lond...tersquare.php3

[Paradox]

Re: Scam Baiting

Pmsl PK, I've been watching that for about an hour and a half.

Delta, if you want to send the details to me on the PM system from here, that'll be fine

[Delta]

Re: Scam Baiting

Matt, check your pms love and have some fun for me

[Sapphire]

Re: Scam Baiting

Ok sueellen123 is now registered and has replied to a couple of scammers, so will post when i have anything to report.

sapphire

[Paule]

Re: Scam Baiting

Good Luck Saph,
It will take over your life soon

[Paradox]

Re: Scam Baiting

Good Luck Saph,
It will take over your life soon

Yes. It will.

I have done feck all all day, apart from make 3 phone calls.

[biscuits]

Re: Scam Baiting

ive just registered as Ubin Hadlad lol

[enaid]

Re: Scam Baiting

Hats off to you all, I think this is fantastic anything, no matter how small to keep low lifes in check is fine by me I'll stick this smiley in, I didn't want to use this one:kiss: in case you got the wrong idea lol.

[Sapphire]

Re: Scam Baiting

Well I now have two on the go:
a) I've won million on lottery and I need to send bank details etc to get the money - yeh right.
b) There's millions left hanging about in china and he wants me to go into business with him, all i have to do is open up various accounts etc in my name - hmmmm i don't think so.

I've replied to both and asked for their details up front, as I am very poorly and my papers etc are at my business address and I can't get to them at the moment

sapphire

[Paule]

Re: Scam Baiting

Site update:

419Eater DDoS'd?

We've had a report that the popular scambaiting site 419Eater and the anti-scam site Scamwarners are the latest anti-spam sites to fall victim to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Both sites are down at this time. Details are hard to come by, but there's apparently been speculation that the attack originated from a Russian spamgang.

The Russians are pretty much the 'usual suspects' for any kind of DDoS attack. There's good reason to believe that the Zhelatin (Storm Worm) gang have been behind a number of other DDoS attacks this year, including an attack against anti-spam sites and download sites operated by a rival spam gang. Zhelatin are known to have spare capacity at the moment. There have been reports that they have built up a botnet containing more than a million computers, not all of which are currently being used for stock and pill spam.

For spam gangs like Zhelatin, a DDoS attack is just another item on the menu. When the firehose of the Zhelatin botnet gets turned on your site, it doesn't mean that it's the gang themselves who have singled you out for attack. It's more likely that the attack has been commissioned by one of their customers. In the same way that a customer can order a stock spam run, they can request a DDoS attack (although it has been claimed that DDoS attacks cost more than regular spam runs, because there is a greater risk that ISPs or law enforcement will react aggressively to shut down the machines involved).

Have the Nigerians paid to have 419Eater taken offline? While the picture we have of 419 scammers suggests that there are many people playing that particular game, there may be a few big fish who would have the money to commission an attack and an interest in seeing their particular enemies targeted. Still, it's unclear how much 419Eater would really have affected the scammers' business. While the site has some educational value and must certainly be an annoyance to some of the less sophisticated 419'ers (who waste time and energy on 'prospects' who turn out to be pranksters), it doesn't interfere directly with the spammer's business in the same way as, say, a blacklist site. Scamwarners, on the other hand, appears to be a more general anti-scam site, whose remit also covers such organized crime favorites as money transfer scams.

Earlier attacks have often seemed to be 'flavored', with several anti-spam sites of the same type hit simultaneously. For example, a Zhelatin attack against spamnation.info earlier this year also targeted other sites focusing on stock spam. Other attacks have targeted blacklists, anti-malware and -spyware sites, and general 'umbrella' sites like Spamhaus. (Although Spamhaus is probably under attack 365 days a year, so it may be hard to distinguish an attack from background noise). The current attack, with its focus on anti-scam sites, seems to fit that pattern.



Update: It seems that the DDoS attack has targeted additional sites. Artists against 419 was also hit recently (according to admins from that site, they had recently had some success in getting scam sites taken down, which apparently didn't go down well with the scammers). Another useful anti-scam site, CastleCops, has also been hit, along with other sites hosting antispam forums. One scam-fighter commented:

It kind of makes me smile though: we have definitely impacted somebody's profits ... Always a good day when that's the case.

It definitely looks as if this attack run was bought and paid for by the fake-check scammers and the phishers.

[Niklowe]

Re: Scam Baiting

Just looked in my orange webmail today and found 5 phishing E mail letters, They are laughable if it weren't so tragic that people are caught by them.

I used to do a lot of scambaiting last year with the 419 eaters, but found claiming money from banks was more satisfying. LOL

[Paule]

Re: Scam Baiting

How is everone doing withtheir baits?

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[Paule]

Re: Scam Baiting

From 419eater

Myself and the staff at 419eater.com would like to apologise to all our members and visitors for the recent downtime of the site and the user forums. Unfortunately this was due to circumstances beyond our control.

As you may or may not know this site (and some other anti-scam sites) have been targeted in a world-wide DoS (Denial of Service) attack. We won't bore you with the technical details, suffice to say that it was nasty enough to bring us down for many days.

The attack is still happening as I write, however we have implemented some measures which we hope will help to get most of the site functioning normally. Presently the forums are still undergoing fine tuning, so they will not be fully available just yet, but please keep checking back as we expect to have them fully active any time now.

Once the site is fully operational we will give out more details about these attacks.

We would like to thank all our members for their patience and understanding at this time, and especially thanks to the many hundreds of people who have contacted us with their support. Hopefully we will be back to normal shortly.

Site Admin

[Solowka]

Re: Scam Baiting

This does seem like like fun, been reading up on a few posts and im gonna give it go hehe

[Paradox]

Re: Scam Baiting

It's great fun!!

If you have a bad day, you can come home and send some lads random abuse!

makes me feel better anyway