The Skype begin refusing payments making on their site through the Tor

Matthew pumpkin at cotse.net
Tue Jan 4 07:24:04 UTC 2011


  On 04/01/11 06:54, James Brown wrote:
> The Skype begin refusing payments making on their site through the Tor:
> I cannot make payments to them from my credit card about a half of month.
> Today I find in their FAQ that one of possible causes of that is "Using
> an anonymous proxy to access the internet".

Could this be because the exit node you are using is not located in the 
same country where your credit card is registered and so Skype are 
deploying their anti-fraud system?
>   (Their technical support
> could not inform me about concret causes of that problem).
> It seems as a next step of attack of anonymity enemies against making
> payments with using the Tor.
>
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