Well I was putting up with things on 2c. DDOS's can happen and I understand that. Anyway things started to return to normal and got a couple of orders through. Hooray I thought then I went to check the IP address.

Now I've learnt (as I expect other have) how to see if the IP address is a open-proxy which some of the more intelligent fraudsters do. So this is a very high indicator of fraud even if the country of the IP and billing address match up.

So it was strange to see the IP address wasn't on the email. No biggy though I so logged into the web interface. No IPs on new orders and No IP's on old orders. All the data has been removed.

Now the pessimist in side me thinks what has happened is that someone got a fraudlent order, saw the IP and DDOS'ed. Then someone on the receving end didn't like that and DDOS'ed 2c back (even though it was the wrong target)

Of course this could just be my wild imagination

Oh well

Rus

one word: huh?

since when did 2co give you the IP

As far as I know since always...

From an example one

Charge

________________________________________________________________________________
Advanced Account 1 M Advanced Account 1 MonthEvery 1 Month(s) $
10.00
Start Up Cost One Time $ 0.00

________________________________________________________________________________
Total Billed Today $ 10.00

________________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________


The order was billed to:

xxxxx
Payment Method - xxx
<address snipped>
IP Address: xx.xx.xx.xx
IP Location: Salt Lake City, UT, United States

Card Type: Mast
AVS Code: YY Code Explanation
CVV Code: Matched Bank Records

how do you check if the ip address is from an open proxy?

Well expierence says that if you check the IP address against Arin that if its allocated to a small network (say 192.168.0.0-192.168.0.32) chances are it is opne. I double check it at www.openrbl.org as well

Rus

2co probably removed your access to the verification info for some reason, they only give it to trusted merchants.

I have been getting them on all recent orders.