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Some say you don't necessarily have to pay for proxy / VPN detection or country blocking.
In other words, someone accuses the whole nation and half of the South American continent that they are bad and do not correspond to my ideas about sweet life, without any real proof in hands, so better to go fuck off than.
He doesn't accuse, he chose not to take any orders from there because taking them cost him more in chargeback fees than revenue it brings.
Some countries are more prone to fraud than others, it may depend on many factors, including laws and enforcement of them, poverty, etc. The business is there to make a profit and one of the elements of it is minimising your exposure to risk.
Maybe im too much politically correct but this is called business. Every single little, medium, or big hosting provider is doing business, searching a profit and if they had in the past clients from a country with a high percentage of fraud is their right (and they are doing that correctly) to stop em immediately to avoid any problem.
On the other hand I'm sure that an hypothetical client from a blocked country, that is not a serial fraudster and try to contact a single hosting provider there on LET (or outside let), will have a rate success 95% for a manual registration and after that paying and by providing documents.
And if a client refuse to give simple documents to his future provider (to be used for legal reasons ofc) there is nothing to blame if provider dont give the service. I assume in that case that client has something to hide...
I dont see any racism there. And to send a scan of identification id (> only for legal purposes with the clause that should not be sold to third parties and it has to be managed internally) does not seem to me an impossible task...
He just stupidy follow the other member desicion posted 2 days ago on their listing. Nothing else. No proof, no fun.
Brazilians are generally unethical and untrustworthy. Being brazilian, I've earned the right to say it.
PS: @AnthonySmith, I have two boxes with you, don't ban me
Now under control :P
Street crime in Brazil really high..)
I think that's because people are confused about what maxmind is. Sometimes it's a list of known fraud in a way but that is not its true function, it's a risk probability assessment. Variables that relate to abuse so commonly that their presence statistically increased probability of abuse are recognized and turned into a score. Providers choose how to use that score.
If that's "racist" or works against particular countries so be it, you don't ignore statistical probability because someone cries over it. Facts are ultimately more relevant to the whole than individual feelings.
Like Facebook. They have no right. Fuck them and their "service".
Not only street crimes... It all comes from the culture of "jeitinho brasileiro" that can be explained as: "being a smart ass". We've recently had a major scandal about meat producers selling rotten meat and changing expiry date. I won't even bother talking about our politicians and their lovely schemes...
A lot seems to depend on what threshold the provider sets.
I was getting hit with a few 'marked as fraud', though I'm in the UK and creating accounts for a LTD company. I sent Maxmind a harsh email asking why they're materially affected the way I do business and the flagging disappeared. I'm on a floating IP. I've bought hosting from literally thousands of providers and had issues with perhaps 10 of them.
Fact is the responses you get are pretty arbitrary to the real world BS you may have had from past providers, however your country is labeled wrt fraud, and a whole other bunch of parameters that might seem unfair, but generally help providers with the issue of fraud.
Fake cry of racism is not allowed as per let terms
Contact maxmind support, i had same issue some years ago trying to buy in ramnode, I contacted the support and they told me it was a mistake, they erased my email and ip from their database.
https://youtu.be/o-lVm1dFN-8maxmind is suck
I always getting fraud when try to order anything
Even i write my real detail and use real ip
That already says something about you.
It mean that i never use fake id for transaction
Maxmind is unreliable, this is why a human screening the order is needed in many cases.
I found that, if fraud score is over 35% something may be amiss, for over 50 I tend to be very careful in searching for a reason, over 60 I generally do not look further.
In the beginning we let pass way too many flagged orders and ended up with Uncle being kept in shape by the visits to the police and courts to explain how internet works.
This is not about payment reversal only, it is about the other related fraud, we maintain a business network and have to be very careful with the risks.
This. It's good data to have, but you should be careful in how you use it.
Well, @jarland...
My IP geolocates to Canada, but in reality.... I'm the Nigerian prince! Send me $100 and I'll buy out MXRoute.
@drdrake
I understand your concerns, but in reality, many hosts rely on MaxMind to screen out fraud. And frankly, it actually works pretty well (there is a portion of users that get incorrectly marked, so creating a ticket is your only option or moving out).
Maxmind scored your order base ,your CC country,IP country,browser header, your OS, time zone...This is especially true for third world countries (poor country) your order will be marked as fraud.
anybody knows how to whitelist a country in maxmind ?
That not exactly can be matched all the time, so they a wrong way. My ISP datacenter located 80 Km away in other small near city, so I cant get this works correctly
I had that problem too when with RDS, for some reason my IP was located in Vaslui, even if dynamic, which is more than 300 Km away, however, Maxmind didn't take issues with it.