[105938] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Linkedin Contacts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Thu Jul 10 12:17:10 2008
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:46:59 +0530
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: "mark seiden-via mac" <mis@seiden.com>
In-Reply-To: <EEA3BCE5-EB81-4023-8466-2FCC5526987D@seiden.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:17 PM, mark seiden-via mac <mis@seiden.com> wrote:
> it probably has something to do with the large proportion of fraudsters
> using linked in and every personals site in the world for 419 and
> other confidence schemes, don't you think?
>
> of course, this only forces the fraudsters to use proxies, aol and satellite
> providers which are more difficult to geolocate.
Well, half of west african connectivity IS satellite so you're going
to see a lot of Gilat, etc satellite carriers' IP space as the source
for 419 activity
Especially when it comes to a paid service like a lot of linkedin is,
if firewalling off a particular section of IP space means far less
chargebacks, well, it may not look good but it sure has a great impact
on your bottom line.
--srs
