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Yesterday Aunty wrote to tell you about the Mugu Marauder, a new “art project” by an organization calling themselves “Artists Against 419″. The project has participants link to images from 419 scammer’s websites and display them on the participant’s own website, causing the displayed images to eat into the scammer’s bandwidth. Aunty advised her readers not to participate, because of the questionable legality of intentionally taking bandwidth from, and ultimately knocking down, even a scammer’s website.

Well, not more than six hours after Aunty posted her advisory about the Artists Against 419’s Mugu Marauder program, Lord Vader, a spokesperson for the organization (and, he claims, for the South African Police Services), responded to Aunty’s article, taking her to task.

“Another completely uninformed comment from a know-all (more…)

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