I guess one approach to set everything to pre-auth only, and pend all orders (according to context), and then manually approve/disapprove as needed. Thus reducing merch fees, etc.
Anyone actually try to reach these poor people? My guess is that most of the contact information is actually correct, since it passes AVS, etc. J -----Original Message----- From: ezgoing8 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: May 28, 2002 12:30 PM To: Jason; 'Mark Petersen'; 'quicknet'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Domain Lock Downside MC/V do not care because they collect the fees from the merchant every time a stolen card is used and accepted by the issuing bank as being valid. The merchant loses, but the thieves and the banks win. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Mark Petersen'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'ezgoing8'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'quicknet'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 5:03 AM Subject: RE: Domain Lock Downside > Heh....got another bunch from a group of gimps called ' ruddoc crewz" in > their org name...last week it was 'allianz crewz' > > I'd love to squish these little gimps.....hmmm... > > It really is too bad that Visa/MC/Amex don't care about stolen credit > cards being used.. I have a raft of them here.. :( > > Jason > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Petersen > Sent: May 28, 2002 1:45 AM > To: ezgoing8; quicknet; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Domain Lock Downside > > Well yeah. That's what we thought. We had a few trying to do 10 year > domain > regs too. > 10 years? Like nobody is going to catch on in that length of time? Geez! > What a bunch of dummy's! > ;o) > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "ezgoing8" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "quicknet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 11:00 PM > Subject: Re: Domain Lock Downside > > > > We had 37 fraudulent hosting sign ups in an 18 hour period last week. > All > > purchases were for annual hosting accounts. > > > > We had to disable our automatic account creation as our merchant > provider > > was accepting all the fraudulent credit cards. Fortunately only the > first > > four got through and were set up before we discovered what was > happening. > > And they did not get to use them, as we promptly suspended them while > we > > checked out the credit card information with the issuing banks and > then > the > > card holders if the information matched. > > > > I don't know how they thought they were going to have the use of a > hosting > > account for a full year. This is what first triggered our suspicions > to > > check the new sign ups as we do not receive many annual accounts. > Mostly > > monthly and quarterly. > > > > Quarterly I could understand, as they could hope that it would take > that > > long before we would be hit with the chargebacks and close the > accounts. > > But not annual. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "quicknet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 1:59 AM > > Subject: Re: Domain Lock Downside > > > > > > > What i want t to know is what in the world are they buying these > domains > > > for?. > > > What company names should we be watching for or even content of the > > sites?. > > > Is it just domains names or are the trying to purchase websites with > > them?. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: "'Mark Petersen'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 6:13 PM > > > Subject: RE: Domain Lock Downside > > > > > > > > > > Yeah so much for all these automated systems, when it all comes > down > to > > > > an eyeball.. :) > > > > > > > > We too have seen a 700% increase in business, and all of it > fraudulent > > > > sourcing from India.. Same crew, using the same 'org name'. One > > > > actually had the audacity to email us about 2 hours after > submitting > > > > order to ask us to 'please process the order' so they could upload > the > > > > site, etc. A $1000 USD transaction was definitely out of the > ordinary.. > > > > :) > > > > > > > > Funny... > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Petersen > > > > Sent: May 27, 2002 6:24 PM > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Subject: Re: Domain Lock Downside > > > > > > > > Well, I don't know about a market upswing, but we sure have seen a > rash > > > > of > > > > bad / stolen card attempts come in from IP's tracing back to > > > > south east Asia over the past few days. So much so that we've > switched > > > > over > > > > to cueing everything and validating by hand for now until things > > > > settle down. What a pain in the rear! > > > > -Mark > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "SpyProductions - Lars Hindsley" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 12:30 PM > > > > Subject: Domain Lock Downside > > > > > > > > > > > > > Gents, > > > > > > > > > > Locking domains is a PIA because end users can't modify squat > without > > > > > contacting us first. This is OK with the "dumb and happy's" but > we > > > > have > > > > > customers with 1000+ names in their profiles. > > > > > > > > > > It is like what goes up must come down. If you lock it, you > need to > > > > unlock > > > > > it. Changing DNS is undoable with locked domains, and that is a > sore > > > > spot > > > > > for most of our customers. > > > > > > > > > > I suppose my only option is to enable an option at registration > asking > > > > > customers, "Do you want your domain records locked?" > > > > > > > > > > Otherwise, if I'm all wet here tell me. > > > > > > > > > > Also, has anyone noticed a market upswing? We have seen an > increase > > > > of > > > > > domain name registrations recently and I can't help but think it > is > > > > this > > > > way > > > > > across the board. Nothing significant but it is noticeable. > The > > > > .com's > > > > are > > > > > by far the most popular of course but .us has been much more > steady > > > > and > > > > > strong than .biz and .info have ever been. Just thought I'd > share. > > > > I'm > > > > > talking March through May numbers. > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > Lars Hindsley > > > > > SpyProductions.com > > > > > Achieve Web Success > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
