'Monkeys' wage war on call scam
Answer the missed call? You've been sucked in to a missed call marketing campaign.
Seven young cyber-sleuths are trying to do what authorities have so far failed to achieve - shut down an international mobile phone spam scam that is affecting thousands of Australians each day.
A company linked to the scam claims it has access to "every single mobile phone user in [Australia]" after allegedly buying a massive database from a Cyprus company involved in porn and gambling websites and Australian-based nightclubs and DVD rental companies.
The Queensland-based cyber-sleuths, who call themselves the 4 Wise Monkeys http://www.4wisemonkeys.com.au (there were originally four of them) and are aged between 17 and 21, say at least two of their websites have been attacked by unknown hackers since their campaign against so-called "missed-call marketing" began.
