[ga] A sad day: Fraud Fighter "Bobbear" To Close Up Shop

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Today the below referenced announcement is a sad day for
fraud fighters everywhere.  But I am sure that fraudsters
everywhere are breathing a sigh of relief. 

See:
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/04/17/1838204/Fraud-Fighter-Bobbear-To-Close-Up-Shop
 

Krebsonsecurity.com has a writeup on the decision of UK anti-fraud
activist site bobbear.co.uk to 
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/04/fraud-fighter-bobbear-to-hang-up-his-cape/
retire from the fray. The 66-year-old fraud fighter said he was getting 
too old for the work, which takes him about 15 hours a day. "We had so 
many messages of thanks, and congratulations on the site, but it is so 
stressful and takes so much out of you, and there is always the worry 
of litigation hanging over your head." "The owner and curator of 
bobbear.co.uk, a site that specializes in exposing Internet fraud scams 
and phantom online companies, announced Saturday that he will be 
shuttering the site at the end of April. Bobbear and its companion site 
bobbear.com are creations of [the pseudonymous] Bob Harrison, a 
66-year-old UK resident who for the last four years has tirelessly chronicled 
and exposed a myriad of fraud and scam Web sites. The sites, which are 
well-indexed by Google and other search engines and receive about 2,000 
hits per day, often are among the first results returned in a search 
for the names of fly-by-night corporations advertised in spam and aimed 
at swindling the unsuspecting or duping the unwitting." Any ideas on 
who might want to take over the domains and carry on the work would be 
appreciated by the Internet community at large.

Regards,

Jeffrey A. Williams
Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 294k members/stakeholders and growing, 
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