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Good Luck! When i was in Alaska I remember seeing a web hosting company in downtown (or at least what they call downtown) Anchorage. If you're going to find one, it's going to be there but count on bandwidth being extremely limited. It's hard enough to find a decent host in Canada so Alaska is going to be almost impossible. Is there any particular reason for wanting Alaska? It's not going to help with routing to Russia or Asia most likely.
The more interesting question is will LEB/LET decide to stop being an aide to this guy's carding operation, or will continue turing a blind eye as if nothing's out of the ordinary in his discussions list http://lowendtalk.com/profile/discussions/3591/ttsaon
"Carding"?
Carding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_fraud#Carding
@ErawanArifNugroho obtaining stolen credit card details and then looking for a VPS in a very specific location (where the original card owner lives) to set up a proxy and spend money from the card, to not get detected by MaxMind etc IP address geo-location mismatch.
So, ttsaon doing fraud for every vps provider he asked?
no .I have ordered many vps @kro right?
I LOVE how people like you jump to conclusions. You want to know HOW I know he's not carding? His post history would make him look too damn stupid if he was a carder. Would a carder ask on a public forum for various specific locations of American VPS's?
The more likely theory is he likes to diversify for some reason or another.
Actually his story was that he wants it for a VPN but he will not be using this VPN himself (and it will not be used by Chinese).
Credit card fraudsters, generally speaking, are not smart people.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to create a phishing campaign or install a skimming device.
What it does require though, is a complete lack of morals and ethics.
Different set, not lack thereof. Just because someone's morals and ethics are different from yours doesn't mean they don't have morals or ethics.
@Rallias - you don't have to be smart considering there are pastebins and open (but slightly hidden) IRC channels where cards just get puked out for the skids to play with
Does colloquial embellishment escape your comprehension? :-)
Of course fraudsters have some sort of instinctive moral or ethical framework. My point is that it's clearly deficient.
Everything looks legit will happily report back if It ends up anything but. ^_^
Without very intrusive web activity monitoring of his VPN, it'll be impossible to verify he's not a carder.
I'm not saying that ttsaon is a carder, I just agree with @rm_ that his numerous VM requests for very specific locations is a bit suspicious.
Hence the 'looks' and the 'report back' right?
I think its pretty trivial when dealing online sales in regards to virtual products...
EDIT:
I don't think there is enough to even claim he's a carder - period, even with the specific location requests.
My point is that unless you're implementing a very intrusive monitoring system, then it is impossible to verify that his VM is not participating in a carding scheme--regardless of what you report back on.
The last study on the underground economy had everybody specializing to various degrees. He might be a legit VPN provider that has a weird propensity to buy on short term contracts to cycle through IPs. You can probably make a decent amount doing just that while technically remaining on the good side of the law. Whether it's moral is a different matter.
You can look at the cancel rate and determine if he's say a GBHouse or someone who's in the gray area.
Ok, well I guess there is a language barrier here from this Kiwi fella.
Again: Hence the 'looks' and the 'report back' right?
What you're attempting to teach me, is common knowledge and you may continue to reword it however you like and as many times as you care too. I'm not much for tit for tat games and getting wound into drama. I don't even watch TV.
Over here at kgo we know what its like to have labels plastered against ones name without any evidence what so ever.
If this turns out to be something illegal, he will be dealt with and I will be reporting back here to this very thread, as to inform other providers(and users naturally). But until that time he is valued customer.
This has become quite derailed and its something I hate to see here on LET - This will be my last comment here. I'm reachable on IRC though ^_^
Yeah, but who gets to decide what an appropriate set of morals are? Who gets to decide what an appropriate set of ethics are? I've been told I have no morals because I'm an atheist. Am I lacking morals? Who gets to decide that?
Everyone has morals. Everyone has ethics. Those morals and those ethics are defined by the person themselves, along with their environment. But to say that person selects different morals and different ethics than their environment does not equate to having no morals and no ethics. It merely means that they have a different set. I don't card. I've heard very compelling arguments as to carding being OK. I've heard very compelling arguments to the opposite. I share morals with both groups of people. To say that my morals shared with carders aren't real is bullshit. Their morals and their ethics are not at all deficient compared to yours or that of the next schmoe that flies on by.
Now what they lack is obedience to the law. But don't we all? All of us, by some estimates, commit 10+ felonies in any given week. Hell, before I turned 18, I committed at least 2 a day (shrinkwrap 18+ porn warnings -> CFAA, various other raps). Am I morally and ethically deficient?
:facepalm:
Way off topic...
What you're describing has a name. It's called ethical relativism and it is by far the most refuted theory of ethics out there. I'm not going to get into the details of it, but if you're interested there's plenty to read on the topic.
Who am I, a copyright infringer, to judge a murderer?
What he's saying is crazy
Well shit why do we even have different punishments for laws and stuff if all ethics are relative
maybe he thinks Alaska is another Country :P
I'd be as surprised to see an Alaskan VPS host as I'd be to see a Siberian VPS host.
Next I would like to see an Antarctica VPS.
Yeah, but why'd you need Siberian when you have Russian?
There is a number of VPS hosts in Siberia (mostly Novosibirsk), some of them even offer LEBs. However with perhaps all of them it will be a Russian language-only website and no support for Paypal or credit card payments.
Because Siberia's cool...?
Okay, I'm surprised now.