I doubt there's a single person on the planet who has not received at least one scam email, whether it's claiming to be able and willing to share their millions if you can just pay some fees first, some refugee in need of a foreigner to recover her inherited millions, offers of a loan, or any of the various other types of Advance Fee Fraud, commonly referred to as 419 scams.
Behind these scams are often fake websites, fake banks, courier companies, law firms, recruitment sites and more, used to further convince victims that whatever story the scammer has spun is real.
Finding and reporting these websites to the hosting and registering companies, are a group of volunteers called the Artists Against 419, a group I've been a member of for a while now. While most hosts and registrars are generally responsive, and some that are really proactive at removing these sites, there are those that downright bury their head in the sand and ignore the scams on their servers defrauding the public while being happy to take the fraudsters money at the same time.
This blog is dedicated to those wilfully deaf companies. Shame on you.
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