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== Welcome to Artists Against 419 ==
 
== Welcome to Artists Against 419 ==
  
The '''[[Flash Mob 14|The Valentine's Day Flash Mob]]''' is over!  Artists Against 419 and their supporters have bandwidth hogged 26 Nigerian Advance Fee Fraud fake banks to their miserable death on 13 and 14 February, 2006. Click [[Flash_Mob_14#Visit_some_Fake_Banks.21|here]] for the list of the results.
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The Internet is great, isn't it? It's a magical place, where you can buy anything you want, meet new people, find information... and lose all your money to scammers.
  
[[Flash_Mob_History|Read more about the past Flashmobs!]]
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We've never liked that last part, so we started to fight back. [[History|Over time]] our art has evolved, and we now maintain the largest manually researched online repository of web sites used in internet fraud.
  
==Spread the word!==
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We offer a [https://db.aa419.org/ complete public interface] for our site visitors, as well as [[JSON_API|database access through webservices]] which can be used for automated retrieval of fake site entries. Web browser toolbars use our database feed to warn users that a site they visit is a fake company run by scammers. But most importantly, we continue to build better relations with other anti-fraud organizations and webhosting companies, to pursue our goal of ridding the Internet of fraudulent web sites. 
  
A new bandwidth tool has been released for beta testing on 13 February 2006: [http://wiki.aa419.org/index.php/AA419_Tools#Muguito_-_Download_Now.21 Muguito] is a Java tool that runs equally under Windows, Linux, Mac, or any other OS that supports Java.
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==== Related pages ====
 
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* [[FAQ and Support]]
The Artists revealed an updated version of the [http://www.aa419.org/vampire/ladvampire.php Lad Vampire] on December 5. Take a look, and read more about it in our [http://forum.aa419.org/ forums]!
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* [[Advance Fee Fraud|What is 419?]]
 
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* Is this a legit site? Use some [[Online search tools]] to help identify fraud
==Artists Database Used in New Firetrust Sitehound Software==
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* [[Links]] to other sites
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* [[Fanmail]]
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* [[Old Coaster's List of Bank Regulators around the World]]
  
That's right, [http://www.firetrust.com/firetrustsitehound_community_groups.html the Artists are one of the Community Groups] whose information is used by Firetrust's [http://www.firetrust.com/firetrustsitehound.html recently released toolbar]. Of course we are very pleased that years of hard work in putting together our database are being put to some greater use! But most importantly, there's now a way for thousands of internet users to be immediately warned that they're being targeted by scammers. '''Nothing fights 419 fraud like public awareness!!!'''
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==Announcement: Anti Phishing Working Group==
  
 
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==Manifesto==
 
Artists love the internet - with the exception of spam! There is only one thing that we hate more than spammers: 419 scammers abusing the internet... These criminals abuse our mailboxes by sending 419 emails, they abuse our guest books by leaving their MUGU entries and they abuse this media by building web sites for criminal fake companies. But some people started hitting back....
 
  
In October 2003 the Artist Against 419 started tackling fake banks in an artistic way: by hotlinking their images to drain their small bandwidth allowance over the limit. But the fake banks evolved and so did the Artists. On the 30th of November 2003 the Artists Against 419 hosted the [[Flash_Mob||first international flashmob against 419]] which would have many successors. We also started maintaining a list of the 419 related sites we found so that potential scam victims would see our website and be warned when they searched for their online banks, and we started cooperaing with webhosting companies to get the 419 sites shut down as soon as possible without causing harm to the webhosters.
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We believe that open communication between all companies and groups involved in the fight against internet fraud is the only way to combat it.
  
At the moment, the Artists maintain one of the world's largest databases of 419 websites. We offer a [http://aa419.org/fake-banks/|complete public interface] for our site visitors, as well as a database access through webservices which can be used by people for automated retrieval of fake bank entries. We continue to build better relations with webhosting companies and rid the web of fraudulent websites.
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To that end, the Artists Against 419 are proud to announce their membership of the Anti Phishing Working Group (APWG), and look forward to co-operating with its many members.  Our main focus of work will remain fake websites used in Advance Fee fraud, but we aim to share our knowledge where possible.
  
Fake bankers beware! The artists are coming....
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For more information on the APWG, please click on their logo above.
Everybody is an artist!
 
  
====Related pages====
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==WHOXY==
*'''[[FAQ and Support]]'''
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[https://www.whoxy.com/ WHOXY] is a great tool to research a domain's history or the behavior of a registrant. Much as some parties would like to describe WHOIS data as privacy invasive, the reality is it allows transparency to consumer and commerce alike and, if used correctly, is rather a stepping stone to consumer trust protecting both consumer and service provider alike. It also allows researchers and consumers to research issues that undermines the legitimate internet, avoiding and/or addressing them. WHOXY is a great tool for this purpose and a must in your bookmarks or toolkit. 
* [[Advance Fee Fraud|What is 419?]]
 
* Is this a legit site? [[Online search tools]] to help identify fraud
 
* [[Links]] to other sites
 
* [[Fanmail]]
 
* [[Fake banks and Web sites in the news]]
 
* [[Old Coaster's List of Bank Regulators around the World]]
 
  
 
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'''Bandwidth Attack Information'''
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* What is the [[Flash Mob]]?
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* [[Flash Mob History]]
 
* Why [[Bandwidth Theft]]?
 
* [[Bandwidth Results]]
 
* [[AA419 Tools]]
 
* [[Bandwidth Scripts]]
 
 
 
Please see the [http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User%27s_Guide User's Guide] for usage and configuration help.  [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing This guide here] is a good summary about formatting, tips and tricks, etc.
 
 
 
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Latest revision as of 19:44, 12 February 2023

Welcome to Artists Against 419

The Internet is great, isn't it? It's a magical place, where you can buy anything you want, meet new people, find information... and lose all your money to scammers.

We've never liked that last part, so we started to fight back. Over time our art has evolved, and we now maintain the largest manually researched online repository of web sites used in internet fraud.

We offer a complete public interface for our site visitors, as well as database access through webservices which can be used for automated retrieval of fake site entries. Web browser toolbars use our database feed to warn users that a site they visit is a fake company run by scammers. But most importantly, we continue to build better relations with other anti-fraud organizations and webhosting companies, to pursue our goal of ridding the Internet of fraudulent web sites.

Related pages

Announcement: Anti Phishing Working Group

apwg_logo.gif


We believe that open communication between all companies and groups involved in the fight against internet fraud is the only way to combat it.

To that end, the Artists Against 419 are proud to announce their membership of the Anti Phishing Working Group (APWG), and look forward to co-operating with its many members. Our main focus of work will remain fake websites used in Advance Fee fraud, but we aim to share our knowledge where possible.

For more information on the APWG, please click on their logo above.

WHOXY

WHOXY is a great tool to research a domain's history or the behavior of a registrant. Much as some parties would like to describe WHOIS data as privacy invasive, the reality is it allows transparency to consumer and commerce alike and, if used correctly, is rather a stepping stone to consumer trust protecting both consumer and service provider alike. It also allows researchers and consumers to research issues that undermines the legitimate internet, avoiding and/or addressing them. WHOXY is a great tool for this purpose and a must in your bookmarks or toolkit.

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