Anyone else see an influx of fraudulent CC orders with all valid information? Even the IP of these orders matches or comes close to matching the address. What's in common is that email correspondence reveals Asia-based IP addresses and the phone number never checks out.
Could this be due to the recent Network Solutions breach? I've never seen so many fraudulent orders with nearly everything checking out.
what are some of the ways to minimize credit/debit card fraud when someone purchases services over the Internet? I understand the following are commonly used:
-AVS check
-IP of customer vs. Billing Address
-Amount of order
With chargeback fees so high I'd really like to minimize fraud without tossing legit orders.
Has anyone else had any issues canceling orders from 1&1. I got it over a year ago and a half ago so my contract is more than up. I set it to not renew, confirmed it, and they renewed my account anyway and now that I am traying to cancel it is not sending me my cancelation email and updating my status. When I try calling they give me the run around on the phone.
I am never using someone who can pull a 6 page spread in my PC magazines again.
I got like 3 orders today for domain elixshop.com from different guy name , 2 different email ids, and maxmind fraud reject all the 3 orders for high security risk, checked domaintools and guess what it says "France" as the location of use "Pending cancellation due to non-payment" , trying to order from various states in US
Address used 1 :
City: Farmington Hills
State: MI
Address used 2 :
City: Stamford
State: CT
I will try to contact the person and lets see how it goes, but why do people try their luck with fraud.
It might not be legit fraud but wait... someone just signed up brb...
It was him again, now from Lebanon , in US
Edit other update, seems like few weeks back this domain : intourgold.com was also marked fraud by system from same dude . Anyone here can tell how to stop the users like these and showing them page not found error
We've had a couple cases of fraud recently, and have blacklisted the IPs (which turned out to be proxy servers) of the perpetrators. It got me thinking... has anybody put together any kind of IP blacklist for fraudulent orders? Something like a DNSBL for spam, but focused on IPs that fraudsters use?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI polaced an order for a VPS on Fri, i got an autoresponse that it will be setup within the next 24 hours.
After 2 days I thought it because of sat n sun .. their billing team must be off. On monday I tried my best to contact them ... no avail... no chat on their site ...
submitted three tickets no response up till now (after 36 hours of submitting tickets).
Are they real people or should I go for a chargeback?
i´ve registered here brecause I´ve written an article for speak about my experience with this Hosting Enterprise, also i speak a bit about Adiungo but EMC Hosting are the worst
the article is this:
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I Speak about the bad support and about some BILL mistakes that they don´t want to resolve .
I had recently had an account signup through WHMCS, When I woke up in the Morning the Account was suspended and it alerted me as a Fraud.
What do I do with that Account that is in WHMCS?
Over the past number of years there has been an obvious increase in credit card fraud and identity theft.
Our policies have always tried to stay a step ahead but it seems no matter what is done the occasional fraudster manages to squeeze through, costing us a lot of money. At one some point in early 2009, it got as bad as 60% of the orders we received. It ended up eating a LOT of our time just to go through each order and verify them as best we could.
What methods do you use to fight fraud?
I'll start with some of the things we do.
- Require CVV code on the credit card
- We call the customer's telephone number and verify with them. - Verify the telephone number matches the region of the address they provide
- Require the CC issuing Bank's name and number
- We often require the customer to fax a signed credit card authorization form
- GeoIP matches location of the address in the order
Obviously the big challenge is proving that the person placing the order is the actual owner of the card. I've received the correct CVV, spoken with the customer on the phone number, had the phone number match the region... non-US so I wasn't able to verify their telephone details with the issuing bank. Had the GeoIP match and still found out it was fraud.
On a side note: Am I the only one that feels banks and those issuing credit cards need to take more responsibility for a system that's clearly broken? Even after going through the process above, it can still be fraud with a chargeback issued. In those cases, the company loses the money they made, pay a fee to the payment provider, lost time for Sales Reps and Tech Reps, and of course they lose money on hardware, electricity and bandwidth.
I've gotten two fraudulent signups from the following ip address:
206.53.49.**
Luckily, maxmind has caught him both times, but he's using an address from canada and the phone is fake but the domains he's using are real.
I've gone ahead and blocked the ips, but I just wanted to let you guys know.
When I order, I have input all correct info.I always get these warning:
"Rejected by the Anti-Fraud System. Please contact Technical Support Team."
these guys spent a lot on adwords, but when i click on the AD, i have no way to order!
I run a Free web hosting service on my server with XPanel script installed. It has around 47K accounts in all. Recently i started getting mails from e-bay, banks and many other institutions regarding the Phishing sites operating from my server for cheating their customers / members. Though i removed them but i have to do it manually and after getting mails from them.
Now that i dont want any more such site to run from my hosting site, What are the options available for me in order to check all accounts automatically and remove any such site on its own? As there are 47K accounts and 100+ new signups each day, it is not possible to check all accounts manually.
I want any script / addon which can check all possible Phishing / Spamming / Spurious / Fraud sites and intimate me/ delete them upon request. Any person using such services? I need your guidance + support.
Looking for some fast and effective answers from experts here.
we have problem with increase HDD for VPS in vmware
when i increase HDD show this error:
"Reconfigure Virtual Machine" failed to complete OK
If these problems persist, please contact your system administrator.
DetailsOperation failed because file already exists.
I want to edit the nf_conntrack value 'cause I'm being DDoSed and my /var/log/messages says nf_conntrack is full...
I know how ip_conntrack can be modified.. but I can't figure out how to edit nf_conntrack (installed FC 7...)
if there are any additional settings i must edit on apf to work with nf_conntrack please warn me about it.
Is there a way to increase FTP timeouts to 60 minutes within WHM? Otherwise, how would one do it via SSH?
View 5 Replies View RelatedJust received this from cPanel... it is a substantial price increase (33%). Should be fun explaining to customers why they will start to be billed more...
Earlier this year we released cPanel VPS Optimized as part of our ongoing effort to provide quality web hosting automation software. You can learn more about this optimization of our software for VPS environments on our website at:
http://www.cpanel.net/products/cpvps/
In order to provide optimized software and ensure continuous updates for your virtual server customers, effective September 1, 2008 the monthly pricing for all internal virtual server licenses will be increased by $2 per license.
This price increase is for virtual server licensing only and will not affect your dedicated server license pricing.
i have a dedicated server windows 2008
and i created users on the group (remote desktop users)
but only 2 users can join online
how can i increase this?
althogh the cpu is very powerful now,
i feel the sata speed and io is the bottleneck of server,
if we use four SATAII HDs to do raid10,
about the hd performance,
will take how many more than original one sata hd?
I'm considering upgrading our company's server. We run an ecommerce site php/mysql based, we have about 12,000 visitors per day and we use up about 1500 gig per month. Simple ecommerce site, nothing fancy. We had some complains from people that our site is "slow" (despite it running smoothly for us, but these people claimed that only our site was "slow" and that they use fast connections) so that's why now I'm thinking maybe its time to upgrade.
We are using softlayer, for an extra $50 per month they recommended that we upgrade from our Opteron 1216 to "Xeon 3220 - 2.40GHz (Kentsfield) - 2 x 4MB cache"
Are we going to see a serious increase in performance? Will the increase be enough that most visitors will actually be able to feel it?
I use a VPS with CentOS and LX-Admin. My VPS run only 1 forum phpbb3.0.2 and nothing else.
3 days ago, disk used was 2.6GB, yesterday disk used was 2.7BG and to day disk used is 2.8GB ...
I wonder why disk used of my VPS increase everyday? It's may be because of cache and log? How to clean unnecessary cache and log?
how can you increase the uptime of your server?
can i ask how could you increase the uptime of your server?
We've been considering getting a cabinet at Level3 in Tampa and the last pricing we got was November 2006. Yesterday I spoke with the rep I'd been dealing with to place the order, and was told that Level3 raised their prices substantially as of January 1st.
The quote we got 2 months ago is now a full 30% higher.
Can anyone confirm whether Level3 really did take a fat increase, or am I being hustled?
well now my server load is back to normal i.e 1 - 2
but i want to increase the maxclients limit in my httpd.conf..
when i did 312 and restarted it, it says the max is 256.. so how do i increase the limit
I have an increase in bandwidth for one of my site.
Usually, it average around 6 or 7 gigs per month. This month im almost at 10 gig. In awstats, it report that a spcific ip have used 3.49 GB alone and as 128668 pages view and 128668 hits. Last access was 18th of may.
I have done a IP whois, and it appears that this IP belongs to [url], which is an ISP.
Now, im thinking of all types of things. Is my account serving files for someone? hack?
I joined Hostnine.com affiliates program and within the first two months of pushing their services I had made over 2800 dollars in commissions. Whats the problem you might ask. They don’t pay. They don’t answer their phones and when I went to their forum to ask a question about the affiliate program I was banned in 1 min after asking. I tried online help but the guy who works for online help has alot of excuses. I will make sure everyone knows about this rip off scam so people like me can avoid this company altogether. I’m not the only one who was taken. After I couldn’t get him to answer me in repeated emails i googled hostnine scam and many other ways to see if their we others.
Of course their are, someone he owes 6500 dollars and even employees of his company begging to get paid so they can pay their bills. Their were also customers saying how hostning had canceled their accounts after three months for no reason. Even customers who had canceled and were still being charged via credit card. at the last ticket Ben gabler the owner of the company said that the check has been sent out to my country..
But i didn't send any address for my country. So, how did he get it?
I'm sending out a mail campaign and noticed that there is a default limit of 300 set somewhere on my server. how do i chance this...
has exceeded the max emails per hour (300) allowed. Message discarded.
Is it possible to add another hard-drive and attach it to increase the size of the /home directory?
Beginning to run out of space.
I have CentOs 5 With LxAdmin
My Current Import Max File in PhpMyAdmin is 8192 KiB
I have Changed Values in php.ini and my.cnf But Still No Luck At ALL, Its Not Working
I can not find anything weird on the server.
Everything seems normal.
Why the traffic go high suddenly, then it drop to normal after a while.
How can I increase/decrease a mail box quota from SSH?
we use cPanel.
One of my sites gets around 10k+ visitors a day which has caused my httpd to be really slow.
My MaxClients is set to 250.
What should I do to get it back to normal?