2 concrete blacklisting items are both phone # and credit card number. To
have the address, postal code, and other fields like name and fax # helps a
lot. Most people who we have caught usually reuse the same address or
postal code or last name of the person. It just does not hurt to have that
information there.
The blacklist feature would pop up when the sales reps are adding a new MBR.
Then when it triggers the blacklist for the fields they have used, it will
pop up a message (Possible Fraudulent user. Information is under the
blacklist table.) It will pop up the row that has the same information.
Then you click OK to continue if the info is wrong or if
Since most Credit card companies ask that all ISPs ask for the Actual CC
Billing Address, the address field ends up being a good source of protection
too.
Another Idea that past through my ears is a feature called Global
Blacklist/Ban List. This feature can make any ISP running Emerald to update
the global ISP Blacklist/Ban List by having the SQL server to copy certain
fields of Data from their server to IEA's Global Blacklist Server (should
IEA be interested in adding one) therefore ISP's can protect themselves from
clients who hop from one ISP to another without paying or who has broken TOS
agreements and got banned. The reason why I say Ban list and Blacklist are
defined as follows:
Ban: a Client who has not upheld the TOS agreement and caused illegal or
harmful activity over the Internet connection.
Blacklist: a Client who has not paid clients for services rendered and would
be capable of doing the same at another provider.