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just had someone from nigeria using our online booking systems to book hotel rooms. he was going through booking £700+ stays using a different name, address and credit card number for each booking - but the IP stayed the same.

i changed our system to display a load of abuse when a request came from his IP and he promptly disapeared - busted :cool:

i have emailed his ISP from his RIPE record - is there anyone else i should inform?
 
jonno.co.uk said:
just had someone from nigeria using our online booking systems to book hotel rooms. he was going through booking £700+ stays using a different name, address and credit card number for each booking - but the IP stayed the same.

i changed our system to display a load of abuse when a request came from his IP and he promptly disapeared - busted :cool:

i have emailed his ISP from his RIPE record - is there anyone else i should inform?

ISP and OcUK are the only ones who really need to know... ;)
 
just wondering if i need to inform any authorities about false credit cards being used?

His name was BASINI SAPAGI but the card name used was peter smith :p
 
jonno.co.uk said:
just wondering if i need to inform any authorities about false credit cards being used?

His name was BASINI SAPAGI but the card name used was peter smith :p

That is not even a nigerian name. Are you sure he aint a British scammer?
 
jonno.co.uk said:
just had someone from nigeria using our online booking systems to book hotel rooms. he was going through booking £700+ stays using a different name, address and credit card number for each booking - but the IP stayed the same.

i changed our system to display a load of abuse when a request came from his IP and he promptly disapeared - busted :cool:

i have emailed his ISP from his RIPE record - is there anyone else i should inform?

How do you know it was the same guy, rather than different people with the same ISP?

Wasnt it Qatar that was recently cut off from the net because everyone in the country used the same proxy?
 
jonno.co.uk said:
yes i changed it slightly to protect his identity - DPA and all that :p

first name was BOLANLE? is that nigerian?

Yeah. Coincidentaly, that is one of my sisters name. :p She is married with children so it wont be her and she is rich. :p
 
if you really wanted to 'get' him you should have just let all the transactions through and let him believe he ahd booked all the rooms, send out confirmation emails (if you do that) and then deleted all the bookings!
 
Visage said:
How do you know it was the same guy, rather than different people with the same ISP?

He said that the names registered were different to the ones on the credit card, whilst there could be a logical explanation I wouldn't want to take the risk if I were him.
 
Visage said:
How do you know it was the same guy, rather than different people with the same ISP?

put it this way, i can't remember the last time we had a booking from nigeria, so having several in the space of 30 minutes looked slightly out of place :p
 
jonno.co.uk said:
put it this way, i can't remember the last time we had a booking from nigeria, so having several in the space of 30 minutes looked slightly out of place :p

Fair point. I shall quit my devil's advocacy.
 
ElRazur said:
Yeah. Coincidentaly, that is one of my sisters name. :p She is married with children so it wont be her and she is rich. :p

When she's pulling scams like these I can see why ;):D

j/k
 
jonno.co.uk said:
put it this way, i can't remember the last time we had a booking from nigeria, so having several in the space of 30 minutes looked slightly out of place :p

ROFL! What happens if it was a family coming over to see their son at University here? :D
 
leaskovski said:
ROFL! What happens if it was a family coming over to see their son at University here? :D

what one in edinburgh, another in cardiff and one at stansted :p

i hope it wasn't legitimate, what i wrote was pretty damn offensive :eek:
 
Could have been a load of Christian priest types visiting churches in those areas, Your going to Hell sonny :p
 
Why not get him to arrive at the hotel, thinking he has a room booked, and get the authorities there waiting. Take lots of pictures of him getting busted, then you are a fully fledged 419 baiter?

seems only fair to me, only don't take money from the card, just scam him right into a cell
 
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