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The 'too cheap to be true' colocation offer

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On August 14, I was approached by a party claiming to represent "Leaseweb Colo" with an unsolicited offer for datacenter space in Jakarta. The pricing was approximately 60% below prevailing market rates for equivalent specifications.

My due diligence process identified the following irregularities:

  • No registered business entity matching the provided name in Indonesia's AHU database
  • Physical address corresponded to a warehouse complex with no fiber presence or backup power infrastructure
  • Requested payment exclusively in cryptocurrency to a wallet with no transaction history
  • Refused site visit, citing "construction phase" indefinitely
  • SSL certificate issued three days prior to first contact

I filed a report with BSSN (Indonesian cyber and crypto agency reference 2026/BSSN/REPORT/0814). I believe this operation is actively targeting small hosting communities.

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Seriously, was the wallet traceable at all? Some of these scams rotate through privacy coins specifically.

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Oh no lah, I almost can send my server there also! My friend from facebook group recommend this Leaseweb, say very very cheap can can. I already pack the box already wkwkwk

Thank you thank you @harbourops for share this, you save my server lah. I will check-check first next time, slow-slow. Can you teach how to check AHU database? Terima kasih banyak~

wrap it, ship it, pray it

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