Hey guys. I have a website where I connect buyers and sellers of once-worn items, and the frequent scam attempts are driving me crazy. Every few nights, I'll wake up and there will be 30+ emails sent out to sellers that are obviously scam attempts (bad english, don't care about the details of the item, sense of urgency, suggest money orders as payment, etc).
I'm currently using these techniques to help minimize scam attempts: 1) Block emails to item sellers from known scammers (I'm cc'ed on all initial emails from buyer to seller so I can add bad emails to a list). 2) Using Lyla Captcha (5-7 characters long). 3) Using CFformprotect (http://cfformprotect.riaforge.org/)to filter out obvious keywords that scammers commonly use. 4) Page on website informing sellers of what to look for on scam attempts Still way too many scam emails are getting through to sellers. Any techniques that I'm missing? What do you all do to combat scam attempts? Note, I do not currently require a user to create an account to send an email to a seller. I think that would discourage too many potential buyers from contacting a seller, and I do not manually review all emails before they're sent to the seller (Hoping it doesn't come to that). Thanks Rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:325721 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
