[62826] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Providers removing blocks on port 135?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Tancsa)
Tue Sep 23 12:04:54 2003
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 12:02:29 -0400
To: Justin Shore <listuser@numbnuts.net>, nanog@nanog.org
From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
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At 01:55 PM 21/09/2003, Justin Shore wrote:
>On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
> > Yes, this is all too familiar. Luckily it was not so acute for us. The
> > porn company in question was using legit credit cards and we knew where
> > they were located. We too got to the point where I had to contemplate
> > blocking dialups with no ANI as I had already blocked all access from
> their
> > phone numbers. However, once they started doing that I called up their
> > office yelling and screaming law suits and I guess they figured there were
> > other ISPs that didnt care as much and moved on to them.
>
>I don't know if you did this but if it were me I'd have contacted two
>other places. The first would have been the credit card companies with
>the stolen credit cards.
The credit cards in our case were legit. They were different numbers, but
they were not stolen.
> They are usuaully fairly responsive when it
>comes to them loosing money. Secondly after I contacted the local police,
>state BI, and perhaps the FBI (assuming no luck could be had with any of
>them)
I am in Canada, but I know that it has been stated that the FBI will not
investigate computer fraud if damage is under $100,000.
>I would have given the story to the local media. There's nothing
>like a little bad PR to give law enforcement a little kick in the butt.
I doubt a porn company with international clientele would give a toss about
what the local media say.
>If your newspapers where you're at are anything like our's, they love to
>print a good scandal involving the local government.
Local government has nothing to do with it. It was just some dime a dozen
porn company.
---Mike
