Ross - 8:53 am on Aug 24, 2000 (gmt 0)

It's me again, and I'm back on the offensive. I don't know how to frame a warning to UK ECommerce businesses without someone accusing me of racism.....but there IS a major problem with accepting and filling orders from Eastern Europe.

I've just downloaded three overnight orders from the web site
1 x UK Order - OK
1 x Romanian Order - Fraudulent
1 x Hungarian Order - Fraudulent

Going back through the last couple of months orders, of all orders declined or obviously fraudulent, 93% came from Eastern Europe. Incidentally, regarding the "IC" bit that caused so much offence - number of orders from "IC" 8 Number of fraudulent "IC" orders 8 - Yep 100%, it was originally said tongue in cheek, but I knew that it was based on fact.