Re: Logging IP Address of Orders?

From: Eric Paynter (eric@arcticbears.com)
Date: Wed Nov 07 2001 - 02:36:52 EST


On November 6, 2001 11:27 pm, JS Schiller wrote:
> Y'know, we had a few of these punkass orders too - I just started
> putting the IP on the page the customer verifies from so they see that
> we see - then I have it as part of their record, too, on the credit card
> transaction. Easier than justifying from a log file.
>
>
> HOST: clgrtnt1-port-74.dial.telus.net
> ADDRESS: 161.184.40.74
> BROWSER: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt;
> TELUS PLAnet Internet (http://www.telusplanet.net))

Wow, that's in Calgary... It's odd to see something so... local! Also, Telus
is not very friendly to people who commit fraud on their network. I would
give Telus a call... If you also have a date-stamp, they might be able to
track it to the actual house where the transaction took place.

http://www.telus.net is a place to start.

btw, we also post the remote IP in bright red right above the "Order Now"
button... That may have accounted for our lack of any fraud recently. People
don't realize how not-anonymous they are on the Internet.

-Eric

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