[71907] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Attn MCI/UUNet - Massive abuse from your network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr. Jeffrey Race)
Fri Jun 25 02:56:54 2004
From: "Dr. Jeffrey Race" <jrace@attglobal.net>
To: "Brad Knowles" <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 13:56:02 +0700
In-Reply-To: <p06002081bd0094d78a53@[10.0.1.3]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 16:27:32 +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
>> It is the same way credit reporting works: you mess up, you get no>> credit.
> Except then you can generate yet another fake credit card and go
>on with your life. Do that a few thousand times a day, even -- no >problem.
> The credit reporting scheme only works against people who are
>willing to play by the rules. Even then, it only hurts the
>legitimate credit card holders who don't know how to fight the system.
>> Come on guys, you are all smart engineers. This is not rocket science.
>
> See above. Credit card fraud is a multi-billion dollar business.
>When the credit card companies have figured out this problem, maybe
>we can apply similar techniques to the spam problem.
Please, this is trivial. You have to prove your personal identity. What many
firms do is to require a bank to certify it.
The credit card thievery to which you refer is done anonymously; not relevant here
