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Vigilante spam software costs money

From Across the Pond, written by Andrew Robinson over at Spamfo: We’ve seen the offering from Lycos, makelovenotspam which is no longer available, and the more recent software aimed at 419ers entitled the mugu marauder.  So what next, Spampires want you to pay to download software which has the same…

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ECD Pelts Fur Merchants with DoS Attacks

The ECD, the full name of which is “The Electronic Civil Disobedience against the Fur and Vivisection Industry”, has declared open war on the Internet servers of companies which trade in fur. It is doing this by bombarding the servers of the targetted companies with email in an effort to…

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Mugu Marauder Spokesperson Takes Aunty to Task

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…