You can look into using Aksimet. On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Rick King<[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > >
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