Because anyone with half a brain blocks proxies from their e-commerce site.
>-----Original Message----- >From: Owen DeLong [mailto:o...@delong.com] >Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 3:49 PM >To: Nathan Stratton >Cc: nanog@nanog.org >Subject: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP... > > >On Dec 12, 2008, at 3:14 PM, Nathan Stratton wrote: > >> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Joe Abley wrote: >> >>> On 2008-12-12, at 15:02, Martin List-Petersen wrote: >>> >>>> It's a misconception of some muppets, especially in IT related >>>> products, that forget, that a lot or IT professionals do travel >>>> all over the world and usually have a credit card in their home >>>> country. >>>> Pure and utter nonsense. >>> >>> Or perhaps the hassle of dealing with stolen US credit card numbers >>> from clients outside the US costs far more money than you could >>> hope to make back with the purchases of US nationals travelling >>> overseas? >>> >>> Could well be muppets, but surely there are other possibilities. >> >> Sad but true, we have had to turn off signups outside the US because >> of that very problem. Yes, I am sure we lose some sales, but in >> general it is not worth the fraud costs. > >Why don't the fraudsters just use Open US Proxies? > >Owen >
