[asterisk-biz] FRAUD: BE AWARE

[Peter Beckman]

MinFraud from MaxMind.  Use it.

On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Nitzan Kon wrote:

> Here's a list of those we've caught lately:
>
> 172.173.96.17
> 85.25.139.99
> 68.118.206.148
> 78.101.100.21
> 172.158.212.35
> 41.196.60.34
> 86.152.245.47
> 212.38.144.47
>
> Beware of Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine. Qatar is pretty bad too.
>
> Would probably be a good idea to put a database of offending IP addresses. We already block these, but would be a good thing to share a blacklist between multiple providers eventually.
>
>  -- Nitzan
>
> --- On Sun, 4/20/08, Justin Case <nogoodnameswereavailable at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Justin Case <nogoodnameswereavailable at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-biz] FRAUD: BE AWARE
>> To: nk3569 at yahoo.com, "Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion" <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
>> Date: Sunday, April 20, 2008, 3:30 PM
>> Nitzan,
>> Do you have their IP address's ? The reason we were
>> caught off guard is
>> because of the Chag. We were out for two days.  I just
>> blocked all of
>> Paltel  (Palestinian ISP) from our servers (
>> http://www.domaintools.com/213.6.185.243) .  Do you know of
>> any other ISP's
>> in Azaa ?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> /J
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Nitzan Kon
>> <nk3569 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Funny. I got a guy from Palestine too today. They
>> tried to use a stolen
>>> credit card from one Donald Boltz.
>>>
>>> The real Donald has been notified (called him).
>>>
>>> Beware of a guy who signs up by "tom mart" -
>> he tried to use multiple
>>> stolen PayPal accounts and credit cards. Changes email
>> every time so it's
>>> pointless to track email addresses.
>>>
>>> Rule of thumb - if anyone makes payments using an
>> American
>>> account/address/credit card and their IP is anywhere
>> in the Middle East
>>> except Israel - it is almost 100% fraud.
>>>
>>> Having said that - we still allow auto PayPal
>> payments. You just have to
>>> follow up and verify each and every account
>> afterwards. And don't allow
>>> large amounts automatically via PayPal!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Nitzan Kon, CEO
>>> Future Nine Corporation
>>> http://www.future-nine.com/
>>>
>>> --- On Sun, 4/20/08, Justin Case
>> <nogoodnameswereavailable at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: Justin Case
>> <nogoodnameswereavailable at gmail.com>
>>>> Subject: [asterisk-biz] FRAUD: BE AWARE
>>>> To: "Commercial and Business-Oriented
>> Asterisk Discussion" <
>>> asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>, "Asterisk
>> Users Mailing List -
>>> Non-Commercial Discussion"
>> <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
>>>> Date: Sunday, April 20, 2008, 1:47 PM
>>>> Hi List,
>>>> I made the mistake of having auto payments via
>> PayPal. Just
>>>> had some one put
>>>> in payments and have them all denied. So far this
>> person
>>>> send in funds from:
>>>> julie tosh  - juliert at hotmail.com
>>>> David Somerville - davso at nbnet.nb.ca
>>>> Gaetane Fortier - fortier.3075 at videotron.ca
>>>> ray stewart - dragonr2262 at hotmail.com
>>>> Cédric Girard - realm415 at hotmail.com
>>>>
>>>> The IP's I have are 213.6.185.243 and
>> 83.233.182.229.
>>>>
>>>> The seem to be calling Palestine Mobile.
>>>>
>>>> /J_______________________________________________
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