Any other strategies to close an internationally hosted one like this?
Gain contacts in other regions, or hire people who have those contacts.
Thanks for the encouragement, Joe and also Juha. This has been a positive experience actually. I am always keen to develop such helpful contacts as you suggest. In this case as you noticed, the hosting was in Scandanavia. Curiously a phone call to the National Bank was greeted with "nothing much can be done, and we always tell our customers that they shouldn't put their details into a form from an email, we probably already know about this one, thanks goodbye". I ventured to disagree that "nothing much can be done". The most recent example on their web page was not the most recent, adding to the humour that Nathan sees in this. Fortunately "something rotten in the state of Denmark" proved to be not so elusive to get removed as just after I got off the phone from the uninterested bank we had a result. The abuse address for the IP block led to some quite quick chain of events with "site suspended" appearing at the URL we were concerned about. -Robert -- Robert Hunt phone +64-3-3645888 Managing Director fax +64-3-3645828 Plain Communications roberth(a)plain.co.nz