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Re:Automatic fraud detection is making my life hell by LeifCarrotson on Friday October 27, 2023 @12:00PM (#38040240)
I was the operator of a webserver for a small B2B shop for a number of years. We only had a couple dozen local customers, we hand-delivered custom orders with a dedicated truck. If you weren't local, there was nothing on that website that would have mattered to you.

But there were on the order of 50x more attempts from bots trying to log into our Wordpress instance from India (all illegitimate) than from actual customers. It was ridiculous.

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Re:Automatic fraud detection is making my life hell by aendruk on Friday October 27, 2023 @12:51PM (#38040868)
Similar situation for a local small business I’ve worked for. Typically I’d respond to contact form spam with a notice to the source network. US-registered networks tended to reliably address the problem while IN- just ignored me, if their contact information worked at all.
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