A video still of MailChannels CEO Ken Simpson discussing what the company does to prevent outbound spam
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Anti-spam software provider MailChannels (www.mailchannels.com) announced on Monday that VPS hosting provider VPS.NET (www.vps.net) will use its MailChannels Outbound to prevent credit card fraud.
In December 2010, MailChannels announced the wide distribution of its email filtering solution MailChannels Outbound.
According to the press release, VPS.NET chose MailChanels software to reduces the “cost and complexity” of detecting outbound spam. Through this detection the software also identifies fradulent accounts.
MailChannels says its Outbound software is deployed transparently within the network. It intercepts and filters in real-time. Once accounts are identified, the software automates “the process of account remediation before any significant damage has been done to the firm’s IP address reputation.
“Spam is one of the first indicators that an account sign-up has been fraudulent,” Nick Nelson, managing director of VPS.NET said in a statement. “By detecting spam, we can clean up the credit card fraud by issuing a credit and shutting down the account. The credit card owner never skips a beat, and we pay less in chargeback fees.”
Before using MailChannels Outbound, VPS.NET had a team that would manually identify and remove fraudulent accounts.
“It’s difficult for cloud hosts to quickly identify spammers because spammers use a multitude of false identities and stolen credit cards,” Ken Simpson, CEO of MailChannels said in a statement. “Cloud hosting technology makes spamming easy. We’ve seen a single VPS instance sending 8,000 SMTP connections per second – all of which was spam.”
MailChannels Outbound processes 30 million messages per hour, supports client filtering technology from leading vendors and uses a central web-based management system.
A division of UK2, VPS.NET operates one of the world’s largest cloud hosting systems with more than 45,000 servers worldwide, according to the press release.
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