[siberianbear]

I am a native-born American citizen living in Russia.

The amount of grief that your solution causes me is significant. I'm a legitimate customer who does nothing fraudulent. However, whole swaths of the internet treat me as if I have leprosy just because my IP address is in Russia.

[rubber_duck]

Couldn't you use VPN ? On the other hand so could the scammers if you could.

[jackvalentine]

I don't know how to say this without coming off harsh, so I'll say it and ask you to use the principle of charity when reading it.

If the Russian state refuses to stamp out crime that is causing negative externalities, then people should rightly stop dealing with people inside Russia as a logical response.

[askldfhjkasfhd]

Replace "Russian state" with "African American culture", and I think the problem with this attitude becomes more obvious.

[jackvalentine]

Please point me to the representative "african american culture" government apparatus and you'll have a point.

[askldfhjkasfhd]

Part of the role of a government apparatus is to enforce social norms. Culture plays a similar role. They aren't the same thing, but they do have similar attributes.

Please note that I am not criticizing any governments or culture; I merely wonder why we're OK with nationalism like this, but not racism.

[jackvalentine]

> I merely wonder why we're OK with nationalism like this, but not racism.

I'm not appealing to nationalism? "Russia" could be a stand-in for any controlled territory.

For example many businesses that trade online in the US attempt to exclude people from the Eastern District of Texas in their terms and conditions. Why? Because the courts there are very friendly to plaintiffs in patent cases and they'd prefer not to get sued in that jurisdiction.

That district is causing a negative externality to people outside of it, so they refuse to do business with it.

[omarchowdhury]

So use a VPN, buddy.

[goodJobWalrus]

So, I use VPN, and order my stuff to arrive where? If someone doesn't ship to Russia, they don't ship to Russia, how can VPN help there?

[bitserf]

Freight forwarders are how most of us outside of the US get stuff from companies that only ship to the US - There must be a market for such services that ship to Russia too.

[TylerE]

Sure, but you've just made fraud cost them actual money.

[jackvalentine]

As a seller, it is not your responsibility to compensate for the fraud issues impacting your customer's ability to participate in the marketplace without it being worth it.

I don't know exactly what causes Russia to be a fraud hot spot but Australia not to be, but the issue can only really be resolve inside Russia.