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They're still doing this, so make sure your sales team knows to keep an eye out.
We just received several very similar orders, each for one physical dual-core dedicated server, running CentOS 6 x64, with 500 GB of storage, 4 GB of RAM, without cPanel, fully self-managed, each server to be assigned 5-8 IP addresses, with British English spelling (i.e., "organisation" instead of "organization", etc), each customer wanting to pay monthly, via PayPal, with no quarterly, semi-annual or annual contract.
When asked what they needed 5-8 IP addresses for, they respond variously with "VoIP", "SSH" or "Video Conferencing", but then, they request Reverse DNS... which, of course, they wouldn't need for any of the above applications.
All of the web sites tied to the domains originating these e-mails claim to be Hosting and Managed Services Companies, but the web sites are of very low quality, looking 10 years old, built off of templates, some with spelling mistakes. None of them even have an SSL Certificate, much less an Extended Validation SSL Certificate.
Requests were received this past week from the following domains:
onlineindustries.net
telecomproduction.com
realworksolutions.com
Excerpts from their E-Mails (names removed):
My name is ----------- and I am from the Realwork Solutions organisation. I need one Physical Dedicated server (No VPS/VDS), on monthly basis having a min. of 4 GB RAM and with a disk space of 500 GB HDD. Also note that I do not want any Cpanel and that want Cent OS 6.5 64 bit installed with 1 TB bandwidth. Finally, I want a dual-core processor and a min. of 5 IPv4 usable IPs on the server.
Hello
Can you provide this brief specs?
Dedicated physical server:
dual-core CPU
4 GB RAM or more
500 GB HDD or more
5 IP's
CentOS 6 64bit unmanaged, without cpanel
monthly contract's period and payment (no 3 months, no 6 months and etc.)
PayPal payment
(responding on a specification sheet)
Can I order this server with 8 IPs and pay invoice with PayPal?
Each spammer was sent the following courteous reply (feel free to use it as well):
Hello, and thank you for reaching out to us for assistance with your needs.
Unfortunately, your hosting request has matched one of our Federal spammer profiles.
As a result, we cannot do business with you.
You are right, I received one last night. I ask them to provide a national id and the latest phone bill ... Just for fun.
Last time I lost few hundreds of dollars because of them.
about 3 monts ago was try with me too , so maybe some inteligents LET users ?
Not at all. There is a international network. Even after posting here many others came again.
Yep.
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1459663
Its been a really drawn out ordeal with them, it's quite the mess. We get at least 2 - 3 emails/tickets a week from them and a few live chats as well.
It's always easy to tell when it's them or people related to them.
Francisco
I highly suggest you to block their orders, they use the servers for spam purposes and I can assure you that the IPs will get blacklisted in spamhaus in few months:
https://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/spamm...quinox-servers
if u feed them they will soon order about 100 servers and which will soon land u in trouble! SO STAY THE FUCK AWAY!
Edit: they use those servers for spamming mostly but sometime then even use it for DDoS and hosting VPN network to place more fraud orders at other sites.
That's not a surefire way however as there are perfectly legitmate reasons why some people would come from a DC IP, for instance most of my traffic from home would come from one of my DC IP' since I use the DC to "Bond" my multiple VDSL2 lines.
They are actually from Morocco! ( PM me for the IP if you would like to block it)
but they mostly use servers at hostrocket.com , ubiquityhosting and losangelesdedicated as VPN!
Yeh, I just didn't want providers outright blocking someone just because of a DC IP, by all means flag it and do some further investigation that's perfectly understandable but people have to be very careful with IP related bans/blocks as it's quite easy to cause collateral damage.