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pixl97 • yesterday at 8:12 PM • 5 replies • view on HN

Hmm, how do you even protect against this one? Rewriting the entire website makes the entire situation a bit more difficult, you can control about everything.


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ModernTimes • yesterday at 8:22 PM

You put the people (Google Adsense) showing the scam adverts in prison.

Crunchified • yesterday at 8:58 PM

This advice from the article to the affected retailers:

Brands and their ordering providers that watch for their site loading under someone else's domain, or for checkout sessions that never reach the real payment provider, are well placed to catch these sites early.

It can be detected if the IT folks look in the right places. I suppose a SCAM ALERT page could be presented to a reverse proxy when discovered.

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trollbridge • yesterday at 8:21 PM

Long-term, via credit card attestation to a trusted device (eg Apple Pay) where the consumer verifies the merchant name & addres they're paying.

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DANmode • yesterday at 9:38 PM

Having the app installed already.

Excuse me while I go throw up, can’t believe I just recommended that.

BeetleB • yesterday at 11:42 PM

Don't do delivery from 3rd party services...?

In the old days, delivery was limited to pizza, and occasionally Chinese. You'd call the restaurant directly and place the order. The only possible way a scammer would get you is if you called the wrong number. That's why we had the Yellow Pages.

It seems from comments here that Google is a lot less reliable than the Yellow Pages were.