use of routing information in anti-fraud mechanisms

[phobos at rootme.org]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 09:38:48AM -0500, or at inbox.org wrote 4.9K bytes in 98 lines about:
: Hmm, when I read this I assumed you were just connecting from some
: high fraud country, though now that I think about it, it could be
: both.  Maybe your billing address is in Cambridge, MA and you're
: connecting from a completely different country which has an extremely
: high fraud rate.

	While this an edge case, when I travel around the world, I
	frequently come from foreign IP addresses that don't match my
	residential or business addresses.  Frankly, i wouldn't do
	business with them, or call them up and explain the situation.
	Lots of the working world are travelers.

-- 
Andrew