Posted on a Hacking Forum as Cardable

Hi,

I look at all our main hosting website's referrals each day to see where new traffic is coming from, and at what pace. I noticed last night a topic from some foreign forum linking to my website, and it didn't look promising (I'm not a fan of dark colored forums linking to our legitimate hosting company). I couldn't properly translate the forum, so I left it be. Last night we got 6 new hosting sign ups, all of them looking fairly suspicious (third world countries, fake websites, non-registered domains, take your pick).

I looked at my referral log after this and saw this topic (registration is required, not worth it, you can see the post below) coming up several times. Basically it says:
Cardable Hosting (Tested By Me)
http://made2own.com
http://www.themicromart.com/
http://www.baddabinghosting.com
http://www.pixd.com
All you need is a good credit card with cvv2 and faking IP
I'm sure this guy jacked the message from that asian forum, but translated it for me. I know we're not cardable because we pre-approve all of our clients, and we don't have a homebrew credit card processor (we use 2checkout, and we also use paypal, but don't accept CC payments through them), but it's pretty frustrating because we're getting more and more signups as the day goes on, and it's getting harder and harder to differentiate legitimate signups (there are some happening) from the fraudulant ones.

I warned all of the other hosts listed on that page, but I'm just wondering if there's any way to ultimately protect ourselves from these people other then warning them with words like we did in that forum. Even though hosting is a retarded thing to card (chargebacks in a couple days, hosting account terminated, what was the point?), I would like (for the sake of being a reputable business) to not be considered "cardable". If this means halting payments from 2checkout, I'm open to suggestions for other credit card merchants which may have a higher level of security.

I'm mainly looking for suggestions on how to furthur protect ourselves, and for any other similar stories you may have that have yielded positives results from actions you've taken.

Thanks!

 

 

 

 

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