Fraud/spam prevention tools that originate from Facebook/Instagram teams

List of domains of recruiters that routinely spam UK developers. Presented in a format for cut-and-pasting into a GMail filter

Rack middleware for blocking and throttling

Block any calls with BT if there’s no caller ID. For if the cold calls get too much…

Killer idea to deceive scammers/trolls in a community. Hellbanning = invisible to other members but they believe they’re still active; Slowbanning = deliberate pageload delays introduced to frustrate them; Errorbanning = random error/http pages.

Reverse image search - useful for spotting scammers or copyrighted image library photos. Free for personal use (Firefox plugin) or commercial pricing for the API

Behavioural analysis to combat fraud, scammers and spam - NetModerator

Break up the list into small groups, shorten subject lines, remove spammy words from subjects, don’t send forms within email

Great idea for limiting access attempts using memcached rather than repeated database hits. Suggested use is resisting dictionary password attacks; could also be used for resisting spammers

Address verification can now be combined with device checks. I wonder if this will be wrapped up in one call?

Internet Fraud Management, Detection and Prevention. Alternative to iovation?

A $10 test in multiple email clients, including spam filter scoring

…in ColdFusion, using Bayesian Filter CFC

Sending video in email (to Outlook and other IE email renderers) using the dynsrc attribute

Uses a special Askimet API for Ruby

Wow. Forget Danish cartoons, Mohammed is depicted in marble form on the walls of the US Supreme Court.