Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:58 AM, Miark <mlist2 at 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: >> >> * http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space >> > > 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 -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting stuff