Just got a new hosting order. Just a few red flags...



Used a Yahoo email address (that in itself is not a bad thing)
Signed up for a domain that is not registered
Has billing address in the UK but IP comes back to Nigeria
Name on credit card does not match his name
Did not enter CVVS code on credit card


What do you think? Fraudulent order? Gee... ya think!

Ahh, let me think a sec....... Yup! ;)

Originally posted by ptww.net
Has billing address in the UK but IP comes back to Nigeria
Ooh...maybe it's that Nigerian prince with the millions to smuggle out of the country. He emails me all the time...so glad he finally found a way to get the money out. ;)

Just ship him the whole computer. NOT.

I would bet a paycheck it is fake.

Has anyone received an order from Nigeria that is not fraud?

Yup.

99.9% chance this is fraud.

How could the purchaser benefit from that, if the name is not registered? I thought they only did that to get free hosting to send spam, etc...

Originally posted by brn2h8
How could the purchaser benefit from that, if the name is not registered? I thought they only did that to get free hosting to send spam, etc...
Wouldn't matter... once the account is set up, you can always get to it even if the domain doesn't exist just by adding it to your PC's local hosts file.

By the way, in case anyone thought I was seriously asking if it was fraud...NOT. It has fraud written all over it. Just wanted to share the humor :laugh:

Michael

Do the cardholder a favor and call the credit card company and tell them about it. My girlfriend got mugged once and they ran up $3000 in 3 hours. She got all of her money back but it was a two month pain in the ass. Off topic I know, but we are all probably only one insecure database away from being in the same boat.

Check the news story on the three guys they found with 30,000 fake IDs.

NEW YORK (Nov. 25) - Federal authorities broke up what they called the biggest identity theft case in U.S. history and charged three men Monday with stealing credit information, draining victims' bank accounts and ruining their credit.

U.S. Attorney James Comey said the losses were calculated so far at $2.7 million but would balloon to many more millions and affect consumers in every state. He said credit information for 30,000 people was stolen and authorities are trying to determine how many of those individuals were victimized.

The prosecutor called the case ''every American's worst financial nightmare multiplied tens of thousands of times.''

Authorities said the scheme began about three years ago when Philip Cummings, a help-desk worker at Teledata Communications, a Long Island software company, sold passwords and codes for downloading consumer credit reports to an unidentified person.

Cummings was allegedly paid roughly $30 for each report, and the information was then passed on to at least 20 other people, who set out to make money from the stolen information, prosecutors said.

That sure is a lot of damage caused by three people! What's this world coming to???

I have called my merchant bank and reported it. They are investigating.

Michael

IP doesnt really matter because he/she could be using a proxy, but since the credit card name and his/her name doesn't match, it probably is fraud. I always use a proxy.

How did you check the name on the card? Is that something that can be checked through authorize.net or do I have to call the bank for that info? We check AVS, CVV2 and IP but haven't found a good way to easily check the name on the card.

All new customers that sign up with us must pass cvv2 @ and AVS. We trace the Ip to see if it matches.. I know that they can clock the IP but it has saved us many time. If anything looks strange we call the bank and give them the CC# and they verify the name... If you are not 100%, call the customer :D

We have been in business since 1/1999 and have had a total of three fraud charges that we did not catch. All three were before we started grabbing the IP addresses.

What we find in most fraud charges is they try to buy the biggest hosting account we sell and we even had one guy try to buy it for 11 years in advance :eek: It wwas a nice chunk of change but come on who would let that go ???


I always call the merchant bank when I get a freaud # so they can handle from their end.

Robert

Originally posted by thatguy
Ooh...maybe it's that Nigerian prince with the millions to smuggle out of the country. He emails me all the time...so glad he finally found a way to get the money out. ;)

ahahhaa - Get them as well. Makes me wonder what kind of person would fall for it.

I ask for the name on the credit card in my signup form. With all the red flags, I called my merchant processor and told them my suspicions.

They checked and couldn't verify any of the card information, but gave the phone number of the issuing bank. I called them and they confirmed the name was false, the address was false, and there was already a hold on the account. They were trying to reach the card holder to let them know.

More than 60% of nigerias official national trade is fraud.....