AffordableDomainsCanada Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 I am getting 4-5 fraud orders a day from Indonesia, is there any way I can block ALL orders from this country ? Also I do not want to support orders with free domains like .tk is there any way I can block all orders with this domain extension ? I am using MaxMind paid services, but I am just wasting money each order that comes in as it still calls them with the telephone verification, and checks the order. I have tried adding a deny from in my htaccess file, but I am still getting orders from Indonesia, any one have any ideas how I can prevent this from happening ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffordableDomainsCanada Posted January 3, 2014 Author Share Posted January 3, 2014 Is there a way I can prevent all ip address starting with 202 and 39 to be blocked from my site using a htaccess file ? It appears that the majority of my fraud orders are coming from ip address starting with 202 and 39 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian! Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 I am getting 4-5 fraud orders a day from Indonesia, is there any way I can block ALL orders from this country ? one option might be to remove Indonesia from your dropdown list of countries - then when someone tries to register from Indonesia, they'll be unable to select their country and should fail the Maxmind checks as their IP and selected country won't match. includes -> countries.php Also I do not want to support orders with free domains like .tk is there any way I can block all orders with this domain extension ? I doubt you can out of the box... unless Banned Emails list can except wildcards... have you tried adding ".tk" to that list to see if it works? I doubt it, but might be worth a try. you might have to go down the road of using a hook to intercept orders using this domain... but that's not my area of expertise! Is there a way I can prevent all ip address starting with 202 and 39 to be blocked from my site using a htaccess file ? It appears that the majority of my fraud orders are coming from ip address starting with 202 and 39 HTaccess Tools is a useful site if you want to use a wizard to generate your htaccess code - whether its blocking ip ranges or entire countries.... http://incredibill.me/htaccess-block-country-ips 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffordableDomainsCanada Posted January 3, 2014 Author Share Posted January 3, 2014 one option might be to remove Indonesia from your dropdown list of countries - then when someone tries to register from Indonesia, they'll be unable to select their country and should fail the Maxmind checks as their IP and selected country won't match. includes -> countries.php I did this, we will see how this works! I doubt you can out of the box... unless Banned Emails list can except wildcards... have you tried adding ".tk" to that list to see if it works? I doubt it, but might be worth a try They sign up using hotmail or gmail accounts, and I really dont want to ban free email accounts, as the majority of my customers do use these type of email services, they just register with a free domain, and attempt to sign up for a free month of trial hosting, but I have seen an increase in fraud accounts, and they seem to be using these .tk domains, and I cannot check to see if the name servers are pointed at our servers or not, so I just want to block them all together! HTaccess Tools is a useful site if you want to use a wizard to generate your htaccess code - whether its blocking ip ranges or entire countries.... http://incredibill.me/htaccess-block-country-ips I have already compiled a list of ip address from all countries in Asia, and 'high risk' counties, I will give that site a shot and see if the list is different from the one I already have. I used http://www.ip2location.com/free/visitor-blocker to compile my list, but will try the incredbill.me site! Thank you for the assistance, I hope this will cut down on the fraud orders I receive. May be I will have to revisit the whole idea of offering a free trial, my hopes was that customers would try the free trial and would love the services and would sign up to a paid account, but my turn over rate is about 10% 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
searley Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 For added security I use cloudflare In cloudflare you can block countries and ip addresses I've gone from 10 fake orders a day to 1 or 2 a week 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffordableDomainsCanada Posted January 3, 2014 Author Share Posted January 3, 2014 I tired CloudFlare once and it messed up my site. I will give it anouther shot, I must not have set something up correctly. I just remember seeing it in cPanel, I installed it and my site would not load properly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
searley Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Read the help section about cpanel in cloudflare. It will mess up as the cookie does not match the IP address. Either turn off IP address matching or use a sub domain to enter cpanel Like cpanel.yourdomain rather than yourdomain.cpanel Or use another domain name on the same server to access cpanel Works perfect for me 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffordableDomainsCanada Posted January 15, 2014 Author Share Posted January 15, 2014 I think using the htaccess deny from method has worked, last night was the first night in months I did not receive a single order from Indonesia. I hope this keeps up! It was getting frustrating.. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
othellotech Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Just block them at the firewall, why waste the bandwidth if you're not going to let them order ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffordableDomainsCanada Posted January 16, 2014 Author Share Posted January 16, 2014 Bandwidth I'm not concerned about! Blocking them from the htaccess file, the site won't even load for anyone who has been blocked. Today is the second day in a row I have NOT had a single order from Indonesia. All other orders come in fine 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian! Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Today is the second day in a row I have NOT had a single order from Indonesia. All other orders come in fine i'm glad it worked! out of interest, are you still using your ip2location list, the incredibill.me list or a combination of the two ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffordableDomainsCanada Posted January 16, 2014 Author Share Posted January 16, 2014 i'm glad it worked! out of interest, are you still using your ip2location list, the incredibill.me list or a combination of the two ? Combination of the two, I spent a good hour going over the list and taking out the duplicate ip address, and just kinda created my own list out of the two. I found tho after using the http://incredibill.me/htaccess-block-country-ips list, it reduced the number of fraud orders substantially. Thanks for all the help! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swens Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 IP2Location has release new country blocker addon, it should be handy enough to restrict some countries to enter our page. https://www.whmcs.com/appstore/3330/IP2Location-Country-Blocker.html 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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