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Discussion on: Scammers signed up, scammed us of $870 in 15 minutes.

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John

Thanks for sharing your experience and the details of this event, I think we can all learn from it. Glad you were able to pick up on it relatively quickly too, it certainly appears like your site caught interest for abuse and they were targeting you for some time.

I had to deal with scammers and malicious actors when I was building one of my projects and wrote about it here on dev. I shared the code I wrote to help others that are dealing with the same problem or likely will.

Blocking temporary emails and using reCAPTCHAv3 has very effective for preventing abuse on my site. Thanks again for sharing your experience and advice.

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Kaushik Thirthappa

Great job 👏

Is there any service that would essentially only tel us reliably if given email is disposable or not?