Well, you have kinda given them the opportunity to do this so unless you lock down the process - maybe by approval etc then who is to say they will not hit your site form another IP range? And what about Legitimate users from your identified address range?
You are on a hiding to nothing if you think you can stop this - without altering your registration process. -----Original Message----- From: Katz, Dov B (IT) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 May 2005 12:33 To: CF-Talk Subject: How to deal with the african money scams I'm getting more and more of those north african money scammers hitting my site. Basically they'll go to a page like www.onlysimchas.com/classifieds and register an account to send private messages to users, en masse, with their millions of dollars tied up in some imaginary bank, etc... I've found that they all seem to originate from a Cote D'Ivoire ISP called afnet.net What's the best way to block this ISP's IP block (the ip they used today is 213.136.122.149 from getting to my server IIS5, CFMX6.1, W2kserver Thansk -------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender does not waive confidentiality or privilege, and use is prohibited. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:207739 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
