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The reputation management company only does what has been hired to do. Te unscrupulous company here is in my opinion Namecheap, for facilitating abuse of its cu
by soco 6y ago
The reputation management company only does what has been hired to do. Te unscrupulous company here is in my opinion Namecheap, for facilitating abuse of its customers.
- sokoloff 6y agoIt's entirely possible for more than one party to be acting in an unscrupulous/undesirable manner in this chain.
- soco 6y agoOn a second thought, yes, you're actually right...
- tdeck 6y agoI totally understand Namecheap's response here apart from not visiting the website, which seems lazy even if they have a high volume of reports. Let's examine how a typical phishing campaign works: 1. Fraudster buys a "phish kit" - a crappy PHP script with a skinned login page that emails them credentials 2. Fraudster finds one or more compromised websites (read: small WordPress blogs) and sticks the phish kit there on some new page 3. Fraudster spams a bunch of people with a link to the phish kit Most of their responses will probably be collected within 24 hours. Most webmasters of exploited sites don't pay attention or have a clue how to remediate issues. This means that it's standard practice to also send phishing reports to registrars and hosting companies in addition to contacting the site's owner and reporting to unified blacklists. Some phish kits block certain IP ranges to make them harder to detect (e.g. a PayPal phish kit might block PayPal's corp IP range).
- weare138 6y agoHow did you arrive at this conclusion? The reputation management company is essentially committing fraud. What they're doing is illegal. How are the 2 situations even comparable?