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by Spooky23 1531 days ago
Usually there is more nuance than that. It sounds high and mighty to take the principled position, but reality is that major offenders of this type of fraud are often ethnic gangs, and ignoring that signal is dumb.

Many companies do things like black hole traffic from Russia, Nigeria, China, etc, or make interactions higher friction (require MFA always, etc). Those tactics work and minimally impact real customers.