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Re: How many others are nullrouting BT?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Blessing)
Mon May 14 06:32:31 2007

Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 11:30:50 +0100
From: James Blessing <james.blessing@entagroup.com>
To: Jo Rhett <jrhett@svcolo.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <E27F5F98-2B35-4ADC-BF39-75AF24ECF3A3@svcolo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


Jo Rhett wrote:
> 
> We've long been aware that BT *never* deals with spammers or DoS attacks
> that originate from their network, but a new issue has come to light. 
> BT has a number of users who are apparently testing out stolen credit
> card numbers from their network against stores of all flavors.

Which BT? There are several organisations within the BT Group...

> 3 months of attempts by US banks, US police departments, FBI, etc to get
> any action taken on these issues has gone nowhere.  BT is "protecting
> the interests of their users".  Meanwhile the stolen credit card
> attempts continue unabated.
> 
> We're considering null-routing all BT netblocks.  I'm wondering how many
> others have already come to the same conclusion?

No something I would recommend to anyone that has any commercial sense.

Serious suggestion, try http://www.ispa.org.uk/ they can probably get
you into contact with the right person within BT

J

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