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About the efforts, successes and the curios in the difficult but rewarding and exciting task to hunt down and kill the many fake bank websites used in 419 scams.
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A “new” bright red flag indicator for website investigations.
What type of businesses dealing with the public would hide their main website behind a login? Seems that being in business you would want the public to be able to access at least part of your site without having to login to a 'secure' server. Obvious...
Microsoft Office Live: Bad Hoster, Part 3
Today the most disturbing problem: MSOL can't actually close accounts! Let's take a best case scenario: we have reported a domain to MSOL, and they have confirmed it has been investigated and action has been taken. Indeed, the website is down and gi...
Microsoft Office Live: Bad Hoster, Part 2
In yesterday's post, I pointed out how simple it was for internet criminals to get a free domain name through the Microsoft Office Live (MSOL) hosting service. Today we'll examine what they do when MSOL learns that their (unpaying) customer is violat...
Microsoft Office Live: Bad Hoster, Part 1
aa419 has recently been noticing a trend of scammers abusing Microsoft's Office Live hosting. Over the next few days I will be writing a series of blog posts attempting to explain what their hosting offers, the serious problems that it has, and the d...
We are Doomed!
Ok, it's over, folks. Time to abandon ship. When I checked my mailbox today, there was the following intriguing message from a Mr. "John" lagos [Email address: lagos #AT# lagos.com - replace #AT# with @ ] [Email address: lagos #AT# lagos.com - replac...
