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1:50 pm
May 17, 2010
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Has anyone here done this?
By out of country, I mean somewhere outside North America.
I will be going out of country and want to know if the Speakout website (when it comes back up) will accept top up payments from customers who are out of country.
I have been to websites when out of country that immediately detected a foreign IP address and refused to do business because of that.
Couple that with the Speakout message at the top of pg 1/2 (name, address, tel. number etc.) that says Speakout will only work in Canada etc. and I am not feeling confident that it will work.
I called Speakout just now but no one in the office could say for certain whether it would work! They said they "believe it should work", but that's all they could say.
Has anyone here been out of country (North America) and done this?
Thanks!
5:10 pm
April 22, 2009
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As a test, I am currently logging into my Speakout account using a US proxy I have, and it seems to work fine for me. You might still need a Canadian credit card though. I know Speakout blocks Quebec credit cards. This is something I cannot test, sadly
5:49 pm
May 17, 2010
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bridonca said:
As a test, I am currently logging into my Speakout account using a US proxy I have, and it seems to work fine for me. You might still need a Canadian credit card though. I know Speakout blocks Quebec credit cards. This is something I cannot test, sadly
Thanks for helping out bridonca!
I don't think logging into my account would be a problem.
I'm thinking about what will happen when I try to get past the top-up pages and then the credit card page (even with my Canadian credit card).
7:11 pm
April 22, 2009
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My guess is that Speakout is not scanning IP addresses to see if they are in Canada. The option of additional fraud would be minimal, because a Canadian credit card would still need to be used, and it goes to a Canadian account. That the transaction is initiated somewhere else other than Canada would not expose any more fraud opportunity than if the transaction was done in Canada. That is my take of it.
