Re: [OFF] - Fraudulent web orders - any ideas?

--- Markus Mayer <mymaillists@gmx.at> wrote: > On Monday 16 August 2004 17:03, Brian Dunning wrote: > > I think I may have solved it by an even simpler > method: I emailed the > > perpetrator to "thank him for all of his orders" > to see what he'd say. > > :-) Great idea! (me shows the thumbs up) > > > Anyone know who the "proper authorities" are, to > whom I could give my > > It doesn't matter where the fraud comes from, its > worth following up because > my guess is you could be dealing with a small part > of some organised credit > card fraud group. My best suggestion is to give the > FBI a quick call or look > at their web site. Although the orders may be > foreign (what location comes > back when you put the IP address into > http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm), > as far as I know, this is something the FBI can > handle, and if they don't, I > would expect they know who does. > > Hope this helps. > > best regards > Markus I just got caught up on my mailing lists so sorry about the late reply, but you could always start charging cards when the order is ready to be shipped instead of when the card is submitted to you. - Grant _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win 1 of 4,000 free domain names from Yahoo! Enter now. http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush