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Operation Chicken Run

Operation Chicken Run

For a while now, Artists Against 419 has been receiving reports of secondary victimization of female victims. Where victims to non-delivery scams (pet, poultry, livestock etc scams) report these scammers and their websites, the scammers are quick to target female victims threatening impersonation, threatening mothers with their families, call them up late at night when they’re drunk, make lewd suggestions etc. On numerous occasions these scammers have then also impersonated the victims, committing further fraud with their idnetities.  Feedback has…

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WHOIS, Proxies and the GDPR – how consumers lost Security and Privacy

WHOIS, Proxies and the GDPR – how consumers lost Security and Privacy

Artists Against 419 has to say this very clearly: There can be no consumer privacy and security while ICANN Registrars are the custodians of trust on the internet. ICANN has allowed a situation to develop that’s had the exact opposite effect of what the European privacy regulators aimed for, the protection of natural consumer privacy. In turn, this has further not only created a situation where consumers may be trivially deprived of privacy, but also security. Let’s look at this situation with quick examples.