[anti-abuse-wg] UCEPROTECT DNSBL possibly abusive practice and RIPEStat Blacklist entries widget

   

On 03.03.21 09:35, Kristijonas Lukas Bukauskas wrote:
> Interestingly -- but not unexpectedly -- enough they may add you to
> the uceprotect-level1 list if they see you attempted a payment but
> haven't paid. So, for reasons not related to spamming.
>
>
> The whole autonomous system of my cloud provider got listed in 
> uceprotect-level3. I wanted to check how their whitelisting works.
> They blacklisted the public IP of my home internet connection, with a
> reason (https://pasteboard.co/JQShns8.png
> <https://pasteboard.co/JQShns8.png>):
>
>> Payment attempts with invalid credit cards. 
>>
> Needless to say: my home ISP doesn't allow sending mail, has port 25
> blocked, and I haven't entered any card data to get my IP of Cloud
> server whitelisted whatsoever, only initiated the payment and closed
> the browser tab once I was routed to their payment provider.
>
This indeed puts the uceprotect in a different category in my books.
Please forget what I wrote earlier in this chain.


Yours

esa



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