What do you think is the threshold to charge to avoid the scammer harassment? I tend to use cheap hosting for people, and I'd like to step up a notch to avoid just this sort of silliness.
You're pretty much not going to find a LAMP shared hosting company that doesn't have a similar policy.
That said, look for services with a minimum term of a year (this lowers spammer numbers quite a bit), and look for services that have multiple contact methods including an actual physical mailing address listed on their site (even if it's just a PO Box, it shows that they're probably not a reseller... there are lot of resellers out there).
And avoid companies owned by EIG or GoDaddy (some web searching will get you lists for both)—they're both just too big and too disorganized to provide adequate levels of support.
That said, look for services with a minimum term of a year (this lowers spammer numbers quite a bit), and look for services that have multiple contact methods including an actual physical mailing address listed on their site (even if it's just a PO Box, it shows that they're probably not a reseller... there are lot of resellers out there).
And avoid companies owned by EIG or GoDaddy (some web searching will get you lists for both)—they're both just too big and too disorganized to provide adequate levels of support.