Block an entire country

Hi,

I own a mailform processor website, which can be used to transfer form data to email account. Unfortunately, many 419scammers use my website for fake bank transactions. They pretend to be a legimit bank and phish account data from victims using my webservice. Many of these scammers seem to come from Nigeria and I would like to block this country from my webservice. Is there a way to identify this using the users' IP address?

thx

 

i do not know much but if u have the IP address
Just go to http://www.dnsstuff.com/
get a good info and block the entire IP range.. that is alotted to that country.

 

search geoip on these forums, or maybe geo ip .... that's what you need

 

Hello,

I am inviting you to look at blockacountry.com and use the blocking service I created. How does it work? Click on the countries you wish to block. Following blockacountry.com generates you an .htaccess document which you can upload to your server and there you go.

Wildcard

 

wildcard,
Your site is awesome. I've just submitted it to Digg, though I'm guessing it already was in there.

 

Thanks... no it was not there!

Did not thought of it.

 

Wildcard good stuff man...I just did up 2 of my proxies and my server load dropped from ridiculously high to ridiculously low. Blocked China traffic

 

Wildcard, great site. I've added your site to reddit. Thanks

 

Excellent Tool

Rep ++

 

But sometimes it would create a lot of server load ... because of the .htaccess document..

 

you can actually use the HTTP referrer to block them to access to your form
on a .htaccess file

and if you have root access on the server you can try and create
some ip filtering to block those IPs....