Hi all,
I am trying to block all IP addresses from Africa due to a high rate of fraudulent orders coming from them.
I have some found some websites that can generate a range of IP addresses. However, you would have to enter the ranges by country. I can use those perhaps but that would mean I would have to get the ranges for each country one by one.
Has anyone here a list of addresses from Africa already? It would definitely be a time saver for me. My firewall uses IP blocking by CIDR.
Thanks, Matt
Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote:
Hi all,
I am trying to block all IP addresses from Africa due to a high rate of fraudulent orders coming from them.
perhaps you should try the geoip project's community options ?
Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote:
Hi all,
I am trying to block all IP addresses from Africa due to a high rate of fraudulent orders coming from them.
I have some found some websites that can generate a range of IP addresses. However, you would have to enter the ranges by country. I can use those perhaps but that would mean I would have to get the ranges for each country one by one.
Has anyone here a list of addresses from Africa already? It would definitely be a time saver for me. My firewall uses IP blocking by CIDR.
how terribly shocking... I suggest also blocking China, 'cause they're commies, and France because they eat frogs
on 6-27-2008 5:58 AM thad spake the following:
how terribly shocking... I suggest also blocking China, 'cause they're commies, and France because they eat frogs
What about those who eat alligators.....
Yum... Alligators!
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 5:47 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg@imag.fr wrote:
Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote:
Hi all,
I am trying to block all IP addresses from Africa due to a high rate of fraudulent orders coming from them.
I have some found some websites that can generate a range of IP addresses. However, you would have to enter the ranges by country. I can use those perhaps but that would mean I would have to get the ranges for each country one by one.
Has anyone here a list of addresses from Africa already? It would definitely be a time saver for me. My firewall uses IP blocking by CIDR.
how terribly shocking... I suggest also blocking China, 'cause they're commies, and France because they eat frogs
Huh??? I thought the French /were/ frogs!
mhr <RBFG>
On Friday 27 June 2008 09:09, Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote:
Hi all,
I am trying to block all IP addresses from Africa due to a high rate of fraudulent orders coming from them.
I have some found some websites that can generate a range of IP addresses. However, you would have to enter the ranges by country. I can use those perhaps but that would mean I would have to get the ranges for each country one by one.
Has anyone here a list of addresses from Africa already? It would definitely be a time saver for me. My firewall uses IP blocking by CIDR.
Instead of blocking, possibly losing genuine messages, why not filter them to a folder where you can skim over the subject lines a couple of times a day, then delete everything if you don't see anything good?
Anne
Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote:
Hi all,
I am trying to block all IP addresses from Africa due to a high rate of fraudulent orders coming from them.
I have some found some websites that can generate a range of IP addresses. However, you would have to enter the ranges by country. I can use those perhaps but that would mean I would have to get the ranges for each country one by one.
Has anyone here a list of addresses from Africa already? It would definitely be a time saver for me. My firewall uses IP blocking by CIDR.
Matt,
I've no idea where on planet Earth you are located, but if you think firewalling any block of addresses is good policy for your site, that is your prerogative.
I am aware of several small companies whose business interests are confined to with in a few hours driving distance from their offices. Accepting traffic only from ARIN, blocking all others reduced spam and various other misbehaviors by more than 50%.
These businesses have computing facilities for the operation of the business and not for entertainment of its employees. Address blocking and clear acceptable use policies have greatly reduced IT administration costs for these companies.
Go to IANA for the list of class A address allocations.
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space
Best, Ray
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Raymond Lillard rlillard@sonic.net wrote:
Matt,
I've no idea where on planet Earth you are located, but if you think firewalling any block of addresses is good policy for your site, that is your prerogative.
I am aware of several small companies whose business interests are confined to with in a few hours driving distance from their offices. Accepting traffic only from ARIN, blocking all others reduced spam and various other misbehaviors by more than 50%.
These businesses have computing facilities for the operation of the business and not for entertainment of its employees. Address blocking and clear acceptable use policies have greatly reduced IT administration costs for these companies.
Go to IANA for the list of class A address allocations.
Thanks Ray.
We are an Australian company and we only ship to within Australia so it's highly suspicious that someone from Africa would be ordering from our online store.
Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote:
We are an Australian company and we only ship to within Australia so it's highly suspicious that someone from Africa would be ordering from our online store.
I am based in the UK, and I regularly order stuff for friends/family/people across the world from online stores that are geographically local to them :D
- KB
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:09:09 +0800, Matt wrote:
I am trying to block all IP addresses from Africa
Wow--that means you're not as righteous as some other pinheads on this list! For shaaaaame! :-)
due to a high rate of fraudulent orders coming from them.
... and by "high rate" I assume you mean 100%, just as my company has experienced.
Has anyone here a list of addresses from Africa already?
I use:
* 041/8 * 154/8 * 196/8
which I got from here:
* http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space
Miark
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:58 AM, Miark mlist2@gardnerbusiness.com wrote:
... and by "high rate" I assume you mean 100%, just as my company has experienced.
Yes. Our company had lost some money because of this incident. It has all the signs of an organized syndicate as they use stolen credit cards to buy from our store and then have the goods shipped to an address in Australia which forwards to wherever they are going to pick them up.
Has anyone here a list of addresses from Africa already?
I use:
- 041/8
- 154/8
- 196/8
which I got from here:
Thanks. That is exactly what I was looking for. I have now added a rule to our firewall (APF).
Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote:
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:58 AM, Miark mlist2@gardnerbusiness.com wrote:
... and by "high rate" I assume you mean 100%, just as my company has experienced.
Yes. Our company had lost some money because of this incident. It has all the signs of an organized syndicate as they use stolen credit cards to buy from our store and then have the goods shipped to an address in Australia which forwards to wherever they are going to pick them up.
Has anyone here a list of addresses from Africa already?
I use:
- 041/8
- 154/8
- 196/8
which I got from here:
Thanks. That is exactly what I was looking for. I have now added a rule to our firewall (APF).
I would like to add something, as a South African citizen. South Africa, is NOT part of Africa for that matter, it's a republic on it's own. It's almost like saying "Let's ban America, cause someone in Mexico spammed me". South Africa, which is on the 196/8 range does a LOT of business overseas in many countries, and I do want to warn that you could loose a lot of good business due to this practice.
Most of the fraud you experience could come from Nigeria, or one of the other central & western Africa countries. To ban a whole continent because of problems some countries cause could be problematic.
For that matter is China a different country from Russia, from Switzerland, even though they share the same land mass
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