Spam & Fraud
As most webmasters would know, spam and fraud are probably the biggest two problems one can have. We here at ez.com.my have also been having this problem for the longest time. Therefore, we have implemented several new features:
1) We have made some modification to the registration system. Users from countries that previously have many, if not all, users that repeatedly posted spam, will have a different method of confirming their registration. Instead of clicking a link on the e-mail sent to them, they will now have to reply to the e-mail indicating the purpose of registering and the types of ads they would like to advertise.
2) Many users register using a fake id and personal information, with the intention of fooling the people. Some have put information such as being from UK, when instead they come from other country. Therefore, to ascertain this, we have placed a “Last login IP location” in every ad, under the seller’s detail section. This will indicate the most likely location from where they log in to their account from.
We understand that the geolocation tool that we used is not 100% accurate. But they claim to have 99.5% accuracy on the country level, which we think is more than enough for this purpose.
If ever you see contradicting information on an ad, for example the seller claims to be from UK but his IP location indicates that he is from Nigeria, please do not proceed any further. We are currently going through all our ads and delete any ads that we think is spam or fraud, or both.
To all our visitors and users, Happy New Year 2010!