THE E-COMMERCE GROUP

Our Task
The e-Commerce Group* is an organization that incorporates a diverse and passionate community of individuals and small businesses. They approached us to supply a solution that would allow them to investigate a group of scammers who were contacting their customer base with misleading offers while “phishing” for customer information. e-Commerce’s own investigators were having trouble accessing the scammer websites because their IP addresses were encountering blocked access.

What We Architected
By using Anonymizer Streetwise’s core non-attribution capabilities and our proprietary IP rotating technology, we provided e-Commerce with a set of solutions that would allow them to “cloak” their own IP addresses to gain unfettered access to the scammer sites. Their true IP addresses were replaced with one’s that were not traceable back to e-Commerce or Anonymizer, thus providing random, untraceable access.

Success
With unfettered access to the scammer websites, e-Commerce soon had all the information they needed to successfully help the authorities shut down the scammer websites. As a result, e-Commerce now integrates Anonymizer Streetwise capabilities into the training process for new investigators who need to search for fraudulent websites without being detected.

* Due to the sensitivity of Anonymizer’s clientele, the name and specific industry of this organization has been changed to protect its true identity.