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Comment by hamdingers

I previously worked in fraud/risk at a major ecommerce platform. On my biggest day I closed 60,000 accounts. In one day. I knew other agents who'd done 10x that.

The scale of this work is unfathomable to those who have only been on the consumer side of it.

#1 is doable but would destroy our ability to combat fraud. "Here's how not to get banned next time" is not an email anyone in this space would consider sending.

#2 is simply impossible. Fraudsters consume every available resource you can put into the appeals process. This is their full time job, they can afford to call repeatedly, all day long, until they find an agent they can trick. Regular users won't benefit.

#3 is what small claims court is already for. We should make this easier, I agree.

parent hamdingers 10 months ago

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