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Re:New York Restaurants Fight Back Against Reservations by Bots by vorpalhex on Friday November 10, 2023 @06:21PM (#38225906)
Less effort needed than that - charge $1 for a reservation. Just enough to be a valid purchase.

Ask them to check out with the same credit card at the end of their meal.

Blacklist any card used for a reservation consistently not matched. Cancel all their RSVPs.

We don't care about the odd reservation where someone books and someone else pays - that's rare and individual people don't book that many reservations. Worst case they call support and you set a note to not apply the rule to them.

This means scalpers now need to rotate cards. That sucks and is going to hit other limitations.

Re:New York Restaurants Fight Back Against Reservations by Bots by lapphi on Friday November 10, 2023 @08:35PM (#38226744)
My bank generates virtual numbers for free
Re:New York Restaurants Fight Back Against Reservations by Bots by vorpalhex on Friday November 10, 2023 @08:39PM (#38226769)
That's why canceling the RSVPs is important. You just screwed over the scammer and their current "orders".

Even if the scammer rotates a new virtual number each time, the high number of cancelations on them is enough to trigger inspection and a personal ban (since they still need their name/address on all the virtual numbers).