RE: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

["Tomas L. Byrnes" <tomb () byrneit net>]

Because anyone with half a brain blocks proxies from their e-commerce
site.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Owen DeLong [mailto:owen () delong com]
> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 3:49 PM
> To: Nathan Stratton
> Cc: nanog () nanog org
> Subject: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...
>
>
> On Dec 12, 2008, at 3:14 PM, Nathan Stratton wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Joe Abley wrote:
> >
> > > On 2008-12-12, at 15:02, Martin List-Petersen wrote:
> > >
> > > > It's a misconception of some muppets, especially in IT related
> > > > products, that forget, that a lot or IT professionals do travel
> > > > all over the world and usually have a credit card in their home
> > > > country.
> > > > Pure and utter nonsense.
> > >
> > > Or perhaps the hassle of dealing with stolen US credit card numbers
> > > from clients outside the US costs far more money than you could
> > > hope to make back with the purchases of US nationals travelling
> > > overseas?
> > >
> > > Could well be muppets, but surely there are other possibilities.
> >
> > Sad but true, we have had to turn off signups outside the US because
> > of that very problem. Yes, I am sure we lose some sales, but in
> > general it is not worth the fraud costs.
>
> Why don't the fraudsters just use Open US Proxies?
>
> Owen