Maxmind to discontinue phone verification

[Steadfast Andy]

Well its actually safer to do manual phone verifications anyway, so its probably better in the long run for most hosts. We use MaxMind but this change shouldn't affect us as we like to speak with each new customer prior to provisioning an order for them.

 

[Alex - A2 Hosting]

Well its actually safer to do manual phone verifications anyway, so its probably better in the long run for most hosts. We use MaxMind but this change shouldn't affect us as we like to speak with each new customer prior to provisioning an order for them.

Manual phone verification can also have it's disadvantages such as delays to accounts being setup, especially when you're getting a fair number of daily signups.

 

[lowesthost]

Well its actually safer to do manual phone verifications anyway

Agreed

Scamers new tactic is to use a disposable voip line anyway so a phone verification is useless, and we have had 2 very recently that I would assume they paid some one who has a clean IP and good phone number to place an order for them.

it was a nice trick but we caught them (client we all ready banned for abuse)