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IP address and origin
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| Hugh Welford 2005-12-16, 7:55 am |
| Hi,
My site is being invaded by AFRICA SPAMMERS mostly from Ivory Coast (
according to my stats program) using USA or UK credentials (zip codes etc)
to fool the registration monitor.
Is there any way that I can grab the IP address as soon as someone lands on
the site and determine the country of origin? Since I am only interersted in
USA or UK origin visitors this would be a convenient way of preventing them
get on the site at all.
Does anyone have any experience in handling of these people?
Thanks
Hugh Welford
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| Evertjan. 2005-12-16, 7:55 am |
| Hugh Welford wrote on 16 dec 2005 in
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:
> My site is being invaded by AFRICA SPAMMERS mostly from Ivory Coast (
> according to my stats program) using USA or UK credentials (zip codes
> etc) to fool the registration monitor.
> Is there any way that I can grab the IP address as soon as someone
> lands on the site and determine the country of origin? Since I am only
> interersted in USA or UK origin visitors this would be a convenient
> way of preventing them get on the site at all.
If your stats program can identify them, you can
Not an ASP issue however.
> Does anyone have any experience in handling of these people?
Not me.
You could register the urls along with the registration
and DNS them by hand to see a possible pattern.
> Since I am only interersted in USA or UK origin visitors
I am of UK origin, but you cannot see that from my IP.
Perhaps do a language test question, not using English.
Not many people speaking Dutch in Ivory coast
are spammers, I presume. ;-}
--
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Replace all crosses with dots in my emailaddress)
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| Kyle Peterson 2005-12-16, 6:55 pm |
| there are ways to do it
check out these guys as it is one solution
http://www.cyscape.com/Default.aspx?bhcp=1
they got comething called countryhawk that works with asp code quite nicely
basically they are expensive but you will get the best results... howveer
there are many other ways to accomplish ip to country
lookups... you just got to do the research
"Hugh Welford" <hugh.welford@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:OW812JkAGHA.272@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> My site is being invaded by AFRICA SPAMMERS mostly from Ivory Coast (
> according to my stats program) using USA or UK credentials (zip codes etc)
> to fool the registration monitor.
>
> Is there any way that I can grab the IP address as soon as someone lands
> on the site and determine the country of origin? Since I am only
> interersted in USA or UK origin visitors this would be a convenient way of
> preventing them get on the site at all.
>
> Does anyone have any experience in handling of these people?
>
> Thanks
>
> Hugh Welford
>
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