How do you deal with spammers?

Jim · 2006-06-07, 08:42 AM

One piece of advice. If it were me and I was going to offer epassporte payments, I would make sure the webmaster's information was correct. That would be easy by forcing the webmaster to take one check before epasporte kicked in. You would never want epassporte to give out their information about a webmaster to anyone. I suspect that if the webmasters know that you do have their proper information, you won't have these problems.

As for what to do, it looks like you did all the right things. You went a lot further than I would have. I would have deleted the account, answered the question from webmasters on any board it was brought up and be done with it. Know your host and make sure they know that don't spam yourself.

Greenguy · 2006-06-07, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Jim

...You would never want epassporte to give out their information about a webmaster to anyone.....

I agree, but I don't see where a simple "That's the info we have on file" or "That info differs from the info in our database" with no further information would be a problem.

Jim · 2006-06-07, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Greenie

I agree, but I don't see where a simple "That's the info we have on file" or "That info differs from the info in our database" with no further information would be a problem.

ehhh...I think even that would be a slippery slope. Pretend for a moment that epassporte were a swiss bank account. And for some strange reason, the government just wanted to verify the name and address of an account. Nobody would ever want that bank to comply. And, I could be wrong but I think verifying that information is a crime in Switzerland.

Greenguy · 2006-06-07, 02:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Jim

ehhh...I think even that would be a slippery slope. Pretend for a moment that epassporte were a swiss bank account. And for some strange reason, the government just wanted to verify the name and address of an account. Nobody would ever want that bank to comply. And, I could be wrong but I think verifying that information is a crime in Switzerland.

Good point, but I have another idea

In order to charge something to your ePassporte card, you have to put in your name & address & whatnot (just like all CC transactions) So allow the affiliate program to charge a fee ($1) for ePassporte payouts that must be charged to the affiliate's ePassporte account - bingo! Instant verification.

(look at me talking as if I know that ePassporte even cares about this issue)

2006-06-07, 08:42 AM	#1
Jim Banned Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Mohawk, New York Posts: 19,477	One piece of advice. If it were me and I was going to offer epassporte payments, I would make sure the webmaster's information was correct. That would be easy by forcing the webmaster to take one check before epasporte kicked in. You would never want epassporte to give out their information about a webmaster to anyone. I suspect that if the webmasters know that you do have their proper information, you won't have these problems. As for what to do, it looks like you did all the right things. You went a lot further than I would have. I would have deleted the account, answered the question from webmasters on any board it was brought up and be done with it. Know your host and make sure they know that don't spam yourself.