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Originally Posted by Biggy
scammers who see a program will allow new accounts to sign up directly for epass. this gives them hundreds if not thousands of outlets to set up accounts automatically with epassporte as the payout option, then when u shitcan one of their accounts for fraud, they have 100 others they can try and fraud you on.
and it happens a LOT, when we caught on to it, i was sitting there for a month erasing 5-10 accounts every day. they go in over time and reg a bunch, build up an a ton of them, and then it takes a lot of work to catch and filter them out. for a lot of ppl in phillipines and other poor countries, even if they have 5 accounts, frauding u for 5 joins a month at $30 PPS, that's a good fucking wage over there, and for you the program owner, it can cost tens of thousands & more each year.
so really, when u think about, isnt it a little ridiculous that u get mad that u have to type in a few letters....
lets say u see 1000 new joins, yeah, theres a problem, its easy to tell, guess how long it would take u to delete 1000 accts by hand, even when u know theyre bad accounts...
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and it is ridiculous to think that they wouldn't signup to your program and do everything you said because you installed a captcha on your join page. Auto form fill script, hit one button, type a captcha, done.
THE CAPTCHA ISN'T A DETERRENT.
I'm not so much mad I had to type in a few letters, I am mad that I took the time to fill out a page of info just to have the damn captcha not work after 10 tries when I think they are pointless in the first place.
Captcha is just another link in the chain to cause you to loose potenital affiliates, not to prevent you from potential spammers/scammers.