Full Disclosure: Re: NiX API

[mrx <mrx () propergander org uk>]

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On 09/06/2011 16:05, nix () myproxylists com wrote:
> Primarily this is an advertisement.
>
>
> I would guess that it is some anti-hack system for webmasters who haven't
> a clue, a kind of auto-generating block list.
> I'm a noob and I am just guessing.
>
>
> > It does provide great protection also to those webmasters who got a clue.
> > We had fraudulent purchase almost every second day, paypal let every
> > fraudulent purchase through and the ** next day ** their automation
> > reversed the payment. ..
> > Needless to say how much we got frustrated and pissed while filing their
> > forms regarding unauthorized claims. We were also charged by paypal for a
> > certain percentage of each fraudulent payment!
> > This is where NiX API comes in:
> > In most cases, the malicious user is denied access even before a
> > fraudulent purchase is made!
> > Since implementation of NiX API with it's current featuers: 0 fraudulent
> > purchases in last 2-3 weeks period. It definitely does something.
I don't see how it is possible to tell a fraudulent paypal payment from a legitimate one, unless the IP address used to 
make the purchase is all
ready known as a source of fraudulent transactions.

Obviously if "John Smith" made a payment from an IP address originating from China, Japan or other non-English/American 
IP address range then
something is suspect, but this is still not definitive.

How could this system stop a fraudulent payment from a source with an IP address the system has never seen before 
originating from a corporate
address block or respected ISP, or unlikely but not impossible an IP address that has previously made a valid 
transaction?

Any smart fraudster would use a device purchased with cash using a spoofed MAC address from a wifi hotspot out of sight 
of CCTV.

Please enlighten me, or would that let the cat out of the bag?

regards
mx

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