On 29 Apr 2009, at 11:36, Derek Smythe wrote:
And maybe real banks do use shared hosting along with 560 other websites and the regulators allow it.
Do financial regulators take into account hosting in their checks and balances? I somehow doubt it We host a number of banks and financial institutions on shared hosting for the simple reason that they are not transacting online
It does not take a brain surgeon to recognize a scam, just some experience in the understanding of the scam.
Well maybe if the people reporting the scams were to send abuse reports in English instead of techno-babble it might help
May I challenge you and give you five domains to process by your methods? You decide if they are legitimate, how to process them etc?
Talk is cheap, but the victims to these are real.
And I think you are conveniently missing the point entirely If takedown notices etc., are not done properly innocent bystanders can be impacted. If company X's CMS is on a machine with 500 websites and the cms is cracked / attacked / defaced which allows a phisher to put up a paypal / Bank of whatever scam site, how would you like to see it handled? I suspect you'd want the site offline as quickly as possible... Reality check - the hosting provider can't just pull the plug
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