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Written by Admin   
Monday, 15 October 2007

UPDATE 2007-10-29: The good folks at Fraudwatchers.org are back online. Welcome back!

I can't believe I only just heard about this, but Fraudwatchers.org and a bunch of other sites were slammed back in September with denial-of-service attacks (cause: Storm botnet). The other sites - castlecop.com, scam.com, aa419.org, to name a few - seem to be back online, but Fraudwatchers wasn't able to recover:  

Forum post from Robert Steinmann:
You may've read about the DDOS-Attack that I mentioned in another thread about a month ago. According to some IT-experts, the cause behind it is the Storm Botnet Many other scam-/spamfighting communities beside fraudwatchers such as castlecops.com, scam.com, aa419.org and a few more were attacked at the same time and the attack is still ongoing. Sadly, our server administrator were not able to mitigate the DDOS-Attack that we experienced and additional protection measures are way above our budget. Therefore, with the heaviest of hearts and the greatest of regrets, the immediate closure of Fraudwatchers.Org was announced. Fraudwatchers.org is no longer.
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Very sorry to see you go, guys! But hey, if you ever need to fill the void, I could use some help over here!

--TM

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1. 17-10-2007 08:07
 
Common response
Several of the sites that out 419 scammers have also had this happen. Their sites get shut down by the scammers with denial of service attacks.
 
Rich C
2. 27-10-2007 19:03
 
Common response
Just to let you know that FraudWatchers is back online, albeit on a monitoring and observation basis. We will be checking activity and, if it seems to have stabilized enoughj, will be able to once again give it a permanent home. 
 
Thanks for your patience, support and understanding - we will do our utmost to stay online and available for as long as, and for as many people as possible.
 
FW Admin
3. 02-11-2007 02:37
 
yeah..i just found out...yea!!
Hey tabbs i just found out that FW was back on...whew!! 
good hor them... ;) :)  
vkatnyte...
 
victor m thompson

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