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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: monesty on July 25, 2013, 02:36 am

Title: bitswing spammer
Post by: monesty on July 25, 2013, 02:36 am
After constantly spamming this forum day after day I don't understand why they think anyone from here would do business with them.
Title: Re: bitswing spammer
Post by: new vendor on July 25, 2013, 01:51 pm
makes you wonder, doesn't it?
Title: Re: bitswing spammer
Post by: BillWithers on July 25, 2013, 02:23 pm
When you're scamming, you don't need a high response rate for it to be profitable.

Here's my suggestion. It at least makes it a little more of a pain in the butt for the person to operate:

Every time you see the spam, go to the site, and enter some bogus info to try to make a purchase. Then when it gets to the PayPal checkout, it will show the e-mail address of the person you are sending it to. Like bbbfunding at live dot com for example.

Then safely make up an e-mail account somewhere and send a complaint to PayPal.

With PayPal, you can't use it for 'currency exchanges or check cashing businesses'. So send an email to PayPal at aupviolations at paypal dot com with the site URL and the e-mail address receiving the payments.

I'm not sure if it is working, but within a few days PayPal may cancel or block the person's paypal account. It might not set them back much but then they do have to create a new account, and possibly a verified account in order to get their money out fast enough.

Somehow if the spammer gets the message that this type of thing is going to happen every time a spam message shows up here, maybe it will thwart the spamming.
Title: Re: bitswing spammer
Post by: esoteric69 on July 26, 2013, 10:11 am
Spammers are the lowest of the low. Even if Bitswing offered a decent service, I wouldn't use them out of principle.
Title: Re: bitswing spammer
Post by: snark on July 26, 2013, 10:54 am
That person sure did a number on those forums this morning!!!
Title: Re: bitswing spammer
Post by: turbotac0 on July 26, 2013, 11:43 am
it just doesn't stop spam for ever!! when will the madness end?
Title: Re: bitswing spammer
Post by: BillWithers on August 01, 2013, 04:55 pm
Don't worry Paypal will be cancelling the account the new spam site is using to receive payments and likely blacklisting the domain so that it can't receive paypal payments at all. Yes he will simply move to a new domain but this makes it more of a pita for him. It's going to happen every damn time I see this spam in the forums.
Title: Re: bitswing spammer
Post by: monesty on August 01, 2013, 07:52 pm
Don't worry Paypal will be cancelling the account the new spam site is using to receive payments and likely blacklisting the domain so that it can't receive paypal payments at all. Yes he will simply move to a new domain but this makes it more of a pita for him. It's going to happen every damn time I see this spam in the forums.

Ah ha ha ha. I hadn't thought of that type of a solution. Even though I hate PP with a vengence at least this time it works for us rather than against us.