[asterisk-biz] Fraud. (here we go again)

[Alex Balashov]

Sam Tam wrote:
> Hey what wrong with Hong Kong. I don't believe you will have a lot of ports
> scan or dictionary attacks from Hong Kong. China yes may be. But Come on..
> You will be more likely to get port scan from a network like ev1 which from
> Hong Kong. Or at least may be 5 times as much.
> 
> If you read the statistic, most hacks attempts or scam attempts  are from
> China, Africa(not a lot of hack attempts), Russia, USA <---yes my friend USA
> too, you really won't see a lot from Vietnam (their broadband go down every
> afternoon for a few hrs and bw price is rocket high), Thailand (they are
> paying like close to $400 -1000 USD per mb so you think they will use it to
> port scan you ?)

It's nothing personal, Sam.  I'm just following my system logs.

And, I agree, there are plenty of other places that generate hack 
attempts and spam whose stats are far more impressive, but I can't 
really block them for business reasons.  In contrast, I have no need 
whatsoever to do any business with anyone in SE Asia and zero interest 
in marketing anything there, so it's a worthwhile trade-off.

Also, my blocking reflects *my* statistics, which may be skewed and 
highly deviant from the aggregate.  Blocking the PRC cut down my spam 
about 60% and my hacking attempts ~85%.

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