[anti-abuse-wg] broken contacts
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Michele Neylon :: Blacknight
michele at blacknight.ie
Sat Nov 5 12:39:52 CET 2011
On 5 Nov 2011, at 09:14, Lou Gogan wrote: > Firstly, it is not the job of the Bank of Ireland to persue fraudsters all > around the world merely because they are pretending to be the BOI. Actually it is .. > > This is an attempt to steal money from people. It is a crime. The only main > contact with the criminals is the ISP. That's based on an assumption that the ISP / hosting provider actually has contact with the phisher. In most cases they wouldn't, as the bulk of phishing attacks go via compromised hosting accounts and / or accounts that lead to chargebacks > They will know the acual contact details > of the criminls, Doubtful - see above > hopefully, and can act on that, or at the very least shut that > link down pronto. > > Secondly, there are many scams out there trying to con people into giving > details of their credit cards etc with no direct connection to any bank - thus > the abuse contact details still should be easy to obtain so a report can be > sent from anyone aware of a fraud attempt, even a Lou Blogs. > > Thought experiment: > If you saw a bank robbery and the thieves were using a HONDA as the getaway car, > would you contact HONDA or would you contact the police? To a certain degree > you are saying I should contact Honda, whereas I would consider contacting the > police, or someone who can contact the police - in this case the ISP. I'm really finding it hard to follow that analogy. Regards Michele Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions Hosting & Colocation, Brand Protection ICANN Accredited Registrar http://www.blacknight.com/ http://blog.blacknight.com/ http://blacknight.mobi/ http://mneylon.tel Intl. +353 (0) 59 9183072 US: 213-233-1612 UK: 0844 484 9361 Locall: 1850 929 929 Twitter: http://twitter.com/mneylon ------------------------------- Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd, Unit 12A,Barrowside Business Park,Sleaty Road,Graiguecullen,Carlow,Ireland Company No.: 370845
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