davelittle
Anyway - I agree with him that it's a pain. My solution is to use a VPN, too. As long as that gets the problem solved I'm happy.
Fraud IS a major concern in general. I don't have the data to even have an opinion on whether rejecting everything out of Nigeria so aggressively is justified, but if it was my business, would I flag it for manual inspection? Absolutely.
I'd also be willing to listen to my customers and manually approve things when it's justified. I can't really ask for more than that. Now, as I said, I'm sure the situation if you are coming from Nigeria is even worse. But I think what he should be asking for is a little more openness in the "manual validation" area, rather than full up-front acceptance of his transactions. I don't think asking for that is realistic.
His response to "the amount of fraud necessitates it" is "F you" ... well, what, is he saying there isn't a fraud problem, or if there is businesses should ignore it? Please. Give me a break. It's one thing to feel personally frustrated to that point, but to write it up like it's some kind of answer won't do anything.
I don't know what answer is better than the status quo, and apparently he doesn't either. Anyone have a comment on what that might be?
Still people not only ask if I am a bot constantly, sometimes they just decide that I am. (Of course, they still believe me if I start talking to them directly and "prove" it, but in those cases I don't like to ruin the joke if I don't have to!)
The only robotic thing I do is type about 90wpm - and read fast enough to keep track of a quickly scrolling chat room. It's not superhuman, but I am "above average" compared to the casual participants. I can understand people being surprised at first.
But making the leap into assuming a fast typist is a bot - despite all the evidence to the contrary - well, sometimes there is no actual problem. Sometimes people are just ridiculous.