Fraud is a Pain

One thing as of late which has become the ever-growing thorn in my side is fraud. While I have gotten a lot of orders over the last few months, 99% of them turn out to be fraud. So instead of just relying on my own instinct on them I am evaluating MaxMind to see what it can do, so far I have thrown some data at it from the past fraud orders and gotten the usual response “This order is very high risk, and we suggest you not accept it.” so far it’s hit everything right on, and I have tested it with my own information, and gathered some from friends - each time “Low Risk” with a score of 1.98 as the average, mainly because of folks using Gmail and such.

So I am going to give things a whirl for a bit longer, this would help greatly especially if things are going to amp up. Security has always been big with me, I don’t want to give someone instant access to the servers just because they paid for it, thus why I check orders by hand and don’t rely on instant provisioning (which I can do) - a 2-4 hour window tends to be a short enough delay, that folks don’t get too frustrated, and it gives time to above and beyond anything else, let me live and breathe!

From the looks of it, I have 1 order to cancel as fraud, and another to process and get online, what really irks me is the person who submitted the fraud order searched for “Christian Hosting” thus found FH - sad sad stuff, but such is the game it seems, but hopefully if this testing works and I get a few more orders in, this thing can earn it’s keep, as it looks good, and so far tests everyone pretty accurately, so we shall see.

Anywhoo - trying to stay awake today, tired, woke up at 4:30am after going to bed around 9pm, just trying to stay awake and see if I can’t manage to keep myself on a semi-regular schedule for the holidays! (One can hope!) Good Tuesday to ya all!