We should have a thread for posting info on fraudulant customers so everyone can use it as a form of verification if that customer decides to sign up some place else.

What do you think Mr. Moderator?

Well, here is millions of online surfers every hour and thousands of fraud cases - here will be not enough space even for WHT to post all of them. It's not practical idea.

And given the level of identity theft in fraud cases, you could end up in very deep legal trouble for listing the name of an innocent victim as a fraudster. If this was feasible it would have been done a very long time ago.

And if they are a fraud, it will be trivial to use fake details.

I just thought it would be good for us as hosting companies to share some of the people that have burned us. Anyways it was probably a bad idea.

We don't have a problem with fraud, but we're small. Does calling each new signup just not work? Looking them up in the phone book and verifying phone number?

Calling each signup does not suffice. The line might be a virtual number that could be shown as a landline, the frauder might be living in the same country or locale with the stolen identity, anything goes.

Listing identities is a bad idea indeed. But is should be possible to list email addresses, as these never happen to belong to the stolen identity.

And it is impossible for an identity frauder to come up and call on the laws for protecting 'privacy' of his/her email address - which generally happen to be bogus emails just signed up for the particular fraud case.

I would use a service like fraudguardian along with several other methods if its a high-ticket item. I do believe there are certain industries that actually maintain such types of blacklists, but that it only catches fraud a small portion of the time. A professional identity theft would likely be able to get past such lists without much trouble.

Don't all reputable businesses have privacy policies preventing them from distributing customer details to an entire forum of internet users?

They may change aliases.