Using bandwidth to close fake banks!

[mobz]

Artists against 419 has launch a new "service" called 'The Lad
Vampire.' It refreshes pictures hotlinked from fake banks & lotteries.
By now they have over 2000 fake banks & lotteries in their database
just waiting to be closed, and The Lad Vampire has closed over
200banks. The meaning is to create a mass of traffic on the fake banks
homepage that it will become unreachable. The Lad Vampire is a really
good interactive which anyone should support.

http://www.aa419.org/ladvampire.html

[Jason Dunn]

This sounds like the "anti spam screen saver" that was out in beta for about two weeks...but I'm not familiar with "fake banks" and "fake lotteries" - in reading through the news links on that site, it seems like something happening in Europe, but nothing on that site really explains what they are...?

[Janak Parekh]

Jason - this refers to the banks behind the Nigerian 419 scams. There's been a number of efforts to use their bandwidth to increase their hosting bills.

--janak