Matt A great service is MaxMind - a few others as well - runs prior to the credit auth. as of the blacklists- do you not limit how many emails an account can send per hour?
Shoot to me off list - i can set you up a few tools that may help here. :-) good stuff - especially if you know linux well. I have some good mod_sec rules that work having mail as a reverse proxy - from a recent hosting client that had an issue we patched. Happy to help you win the fight. Glenn On Oct 28, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Cameron Crum wrote: > ng impaired people (or a forgery of it) to order > up a dialup account and several email addresses. Then the account is > paid for with a credit card. Within a couple of hours, spam starts > flowing from the email addresses. We tracked this down when one of the > people with the stolen credit cards called us to find out why we were > charging them, and it was readily apparent that this was not a > legitimate account. > > Heads up. Now we get to go through the stupid fight to get ourselves > removed from the yahoo and aol blacklists. Dammit! _____________________________________________________________________________________ Glenn Kelley | Principle | HostMedic |www.HostMedic.com Email: gl...@hostmedic.com Pplease don't print this e-mail unless you really need to.
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