12-14-2005, 11:57 AM
Quote:Lim lives in Singapore with his wife and a son who happens to have very wide feet. Wide shoes are hard to find in Singapore, so Lims wife decided to shop for them on U.S. websites. There was just one problem: No one would sell her the shoes. American retailers dont like to take credit cards from other countries; they dont like to ship things overseas; and they especially dont like to do business with customers whose IP addresses place them in parts of the world with a high incidence of fraudlike Singapore.
With increasing frequency, I see studies pinpointing bad neighborhoods on the Internet, supposed hotbeds of hacking and fraud, viruses and spam. South Korea, Romania, Lithuania, Nigeriathey all get fingered. ... Businesses need to protect themselves from fraud, and retailers certainly have the right to choose not to ship to certain countriesor even to any countries except their own.
But it might not take long to get from here (no shoes to Singapore) to there (no Web traffic from Singapore)...
full article: http://www2.cio.com/research/security/ed...02005.html