Monday, February 13, 2006

WHAM! FLASH MOB!

Guess what tomorrow is!! No... Well, it is Valentine's day and all that mushy tripe, but what I'm excited for is the 419 virtual flash mob. Yay!..? That didn't make any sense whatsoever, so allow me to explain:

Artists against 419 is sick and tired of scammers hijacking auctions and taking advantage of people in order to weasle money out of them. Scammers regularly set up fake bank websites to convince their victims of one thing or another ending in them scuttling away with cash. These fake banks are sometimes really funny pieces of work, and they're generally not set up to support more than a few visitors at a time.

The flash mob is one day where hundreds of indignant law-abiding internet users organize to visit fake bank sites in order to bring them down, and hopefully acrue nice fat bandwidth bills for the scammer. Mwahaha!

Pop in at the AA419 site tomorrow and click away while chuckling quietly to yourself. It's so satisfying to see the results of your handiwork, as links go dead. Go ahead--feel indignant! Do it!

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