On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:17 PM, mark seiden-via mac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it probably has something to do with the large proportion of fraudsters > using linked in and every personals site in the world for 419 and > other confidence schemes, don't you think? > > of course, this only forces the fraudsters to use proxies, aol and satellite > providers which are more difficult to geolocate.
Well, half of west african connectivity IS satellite so you're going to see a lot of Gilat, etc satellite carriers' IP space as the source for 419 activity Especially when it comes to a paid service like a lot of linkedin is, if firewalling off a particular section of IP space means far less chargebacks, well, it may not look good but it sure has a great impact on your bottom line. --srs
