> We recently were tied up in the listbomb issue that's been plaguing folks > for a while. For those that don't know what's going on, > https://wordtothewise.com/2016/08/subscription-bombing-esps-spamhaus/ > > I'm honestly surprised it's taken this long for us to wind up having a > listing for a client. > > That being said, we're thinking through solutions and I wanted to get > others opinions in how they've tackled the problem on their end. > > We're currently looking to implement a combination of preventions with the > leading idea being: > honeypot on sign up pages + IP intelligence + email address intelligence + > coi > > The idea being the honeypot will stop some bots, the IP monitoring will > look for numerous sign ups within a short periond of time (which we > currently do for credit cards) and then also look for email addresses > being > signed up acorss clients in a short period of time. > > Have folks used this type of combo to stop fraudelent sign ups? And > thoughts? Thanks! > > Brett >
One of my clients got caught and it took implementing captcha as well as doing a reconfirmation run for 2 weeks back from when it appeared to the present date to clear it. For a bot captcha should stop almost all. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
