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Preventing illegal activity

         

Frank_Rizzo

4:13 pm on May 17, 2010 (gmt 0)

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I once had a guy attempt to brute force one of my sites. I am 99.5% certain who that person was.

That was a while ago. But recently I find he has posted up jobs on coder for hire type sites.

The jobs are for a website he is creating but what I totally object to is the listing of my site (and other industry authority sites) in the job spec with words similar to

"this is a pay site but I do not want to pay"

I see this as an enticement to commit fraud. It is absolutely clear that any coder wanting to take up the job will attempt to access those sites via a back door in order to access data.

I first notified the coder site a few weeks ago and they were accommodating. The full job was removed and / or my site was removed from other job requests.

When another job posting appeared I complained again. But this time I am now getting boilerplate Copyright / DMCA guidelines and refusal to edit or delete the job.

This is so exasperating. I suspect that the poster was behind previous infiltration attempts, and now he is encouraging others to commit fraud. Why won't the coder site recognise that they are encouraging illegal activities and remove the offending posts?

Frank_Rizzo

12:17 pm on May 21, 2010 (gmt 0)

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I had another reply back from the coding site.

It seems that they use the copyright route to stop this kind of stuff.

I can claim that the use of the website name is against copyright rules they will honour that. The poster will get 2 strikes and he's out if he mentions the website name again.

lammert

6:52 am on May 22, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Glad to hear that this site has some procedures in place to take care of this type of job offers. Using coder for hire sites has been an eyeopener for me recently. Almost all kinds of gray and black hat activities are offered and asked for on a daily basis on these sites.