[104733] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: amazonaws.com?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Sat May 24 22:13:32 2008
Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 07:43:19 +0530
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: "Barry Shein" <bzs@world.std.com>
In-Reply-To: <18488.28249.428093.815912@world.std.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 1:06 AM, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> wrote:
> Even when someone declines a charge it doesn't mean you can't collect
> what you believe to be money legitimately owed you. You can hand it to
> a collection agency if it's worthwhile. If not (e.g., you took a card
> w/o any verification from someone in a country whose name you can't
> even pronounce) OH WELL, you're a fool, or it better be part of your
> cost of doing business.
The funny part is, the scam artists already know that "mismatch
between account holder's name and cc holder's name / address /
country" is one of the first and most elementary anti fraud checks.
So, if they steal a cc from Joe Sixpack of Bumfuck, Iowa, guess who
signs up to Amazon AWS for 200 VMs and 20 minutes worth of service?
--srs
