Some of the strong indications of fraud from this message:
* orders from a country not placed through a registrar in the same country (card issuers charge currency conversion fees) * threats of chargebacks * requests to hurry the order * vague hints of future business * broken English (in this case, I'd say Indonesian) * anonymous e-mail provider * excuses for failed address/name match Usually you only get a few of these hints, you've been blessed with the whole range! (Obviously any of these taken individually don't necessarily indicate fraud) In these cases where you even need to raise the question 'is it fraud?', it is safest just to void the card authorization and walk away. I have found that the very minor amount of honest business lost through this practice is more than offset by savings in chargebacks and related labor. David -- |> /+\ \| | |> David Croft Infotrek On Sat, 24 Aug 2002, Mike Allen wrote: > Hi All, > > I will start from the beginning.. I got an order for a .co.uk domain from a guy >in: Netherlands. The credit card name did not match the registrants at all, so I >went to the website address obtained from the registrants email address. It is a >domain that sells domain names. He wrote me about 24 hours later asking why his >domain was being registered through us and not his site and I got this response: > > <quote> > Hello, > > There is no problem with our companies credit card. > We like to order our CO.UK names true your website. > The email used is from our anonymous website and name server > we use for our webhostresellers and customers. > www.XXXXXX.net is a website we manage and both the nameservers > for this domain are used for anoneymous resellers webhosting. > > We like to order the CO.UK names from you to resell them to > our customers, so if you like to do some bussiness with us on these > TLD please let us know. > If not we will look for a company that will. > > So tell us what you like A.S.A.P. > > If we don't here from you within the next 48 ours we will contact > our creditcard company and repport this incedent and block > any attemts from your site to bill our creditcard, because this is our > standard procedure when we used our creditcards on the net. > </quote> > > This sounds really fishy to me. Anyone have any advice as to where to go from here >on the order? I feel it is fraudulent, but I could be wrong and would hate to loose >the business. But as you all know, you have to be very careful these days on >registrations due to the crooks that are lurking the net... Also, the first time we >went to their domain registration site it was up, and now it is no longer up (Blank >HTML page) > > Any advice would be greatly appreciated... > > > -- > Mike Allen, 4CheapDomains.Net > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.4CheapDomains.Net > Need Advertising? Try DeerSearch.Com http://www.DeerSearch.com >
