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firesteelrainlast Wednesday at 6:57 AM1 replyview on HN

You could implement FingerprintJS [1] or even implement email or phone verification before allowing purchases for unverified PayPal accounts or implement some transaction frequencies per IP address. With FingerprintJS, it can basically create a unique ID per user and mitigate the behavior you are seeing and block them or add in additional countermeasures like 2FA.


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trod1234last Wednesday at 7:58 PM

Unfortunately this won't help much.

Each transaction will be unique, with a different device, different ASN, and different IP. If you find my post above, it links to an article which explains the whatfor and how this is going on.