In a previous article we mentioned that not much is known about the Cameroonian Pet Scam or this type of fraud emanating from West Africa. We mentioned the pet scam, the weed scam and stolen credit card details. This article quickly looks at one scammer found that will illustrate this type of cyber-crime.
In November 2016, the On-line ADR Center of the Czech Arbitration Court (CAC) made a UDRP ruling on the domain CREDIT-BOURSORAMABANQUE.COM, where this domain was found to be violating Bourorama SA’s rights. Ref: http://udrp.adr.eu/adr/decisions/decision.php?dispute_id=101308. In the notable portions in this judgment, we find the following: Factual Background FACTS ASSERTED BY THE COMPLAINANT AND NOT CONTESTED BY THE RESPONDENT: The Complainant, BOURSORAMA S.A., is a French company founded in 1995 and is active in online brokerage, the provision of financial information…
AA419 has introduced a new toy for internet researchers. Background When looking up the registration details (WHOIS) for a domain, in the thin domain gTLD model, we are reliant on registrars to supply these services. Essentially the access should be freely available and meet the following specifications as per ICANN Registrars and registries [PDF, 649 KB] are obligated to provide access to WHOIS data through registration data publication services. It must be publicly available in a specific format and on…
This post forms part of “aa419 DDoS Aug 2013 Breakdown” split for ease of reading Here are statistics for bots from the APNIC region, broken down by Country code, ASN, IP address.
This post forms part of “aa419 DDoS Aug 2013 Breakdown” split for ease of reading Here are statistics for bots from the AFRINIC region, broken down by Country code, ASN, IP address
This post forms part of “aa419 DDoS Aug 2013 Breakdown” split for ease of reading Here are statistics for bots from the ARIN region, broken down by Country code, ASN, IP address.
This post forms part of “aa419 DDoS Aug 2013 Breakdown” split for ease of reading Here are statistics for bots from the RIPENCC region, broken down by Country code, ASN, IP address.
This post forms part of “aa419 DDoS Aug 2013 Breakdown” split for ease of reading Here are statistics for bots from the LACNIC region, broken down by Country code, ASN, IP address.
Over the past few days, aa419 has been under a DDoS attack once agin. Somewhere out there, there is a happy “scammer client”. We are always happy to please and note your appreciation of our services, confirming the need for aa419 to be on the net doing what we do. So when our “scammer client” hired a botnet to show his appreciation, we put steps into place. It was believed to be in the best interests of the Internet community…
Aa419.org is experiencing yet another DDoS attack. Now here is the weird thing. When and as aa419 members encounter fraudulent websites, they get it listed and terminated, it’s nothing personal. Fraud does not belong on the net. However those that lose there instruments of fraud do get more than a bit upset and is why we see attacks against us. It just confirms the effectiveness of aa419.org However in this instance the attacker chose to highlight a listing for http://www.gline-bank.com/…