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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
