Block counrties

[datapowerhost]

Hello,

I would like the ability to block counties located on the ofac list. Can you add this in?

By law, US companies cannot conduct business with this listing:

http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/programs/

If whmcs approves orders for these countries, we could be breaking the law.

[vePortal]

This would indeed be an extremely useful feature!

[aXeR]

Can you not get IP ranges assigned to these locations and block them by .htaccess ?

[Daniel]

http://www.blockacountry.com/ would work in the meantime

[John]

You could remove them from /includes/countries.php. This would force them to select a different country and Maxmind would block the order based on the distance between address and IP location.

[mikelegg]

You could remove them from /includes/countries.php. This would force them to select a different country and Maxmind would block the order based on the distance between address and IP location.

That is a very clever solution - thank you.

[Bubka3]

That is a very clever solution - thank you.
While indeed it is, this would still be a useful feature :-)

[m8internet]

As above, I have removed countries from the /includes/countries.php file
It doesn't guarantee an order from such a country, as the customer can simply use any other country (indeed I have already had one customer who used the wrong country)
However, cross-check the phone country code

[m8internet]

By law, US companies cannot conduct business with this listing:
http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/programs/
Here is the list for those in the UK :
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/fin_sanctions_currentindex.htm

[SoftDux]

An easier / better way is to use something like Config Server Firewall (or any other firewall of your choice) which already supports country blocking and then block those countries on the firewall instead. That would cut-down on spam originating fro those country's networks as well.