Welcome to Syntax. In today's Monday hasty treat we're going to be talking about preventing fraud and spam. We got this really great question from James who said, what are some steps that you take to prevent spam and fraud in your apps?

I recently launched a survey

app for a small research group and have been amazed by the level of

responses coming from the time zones and IP addresses outside of the US. I know captures and

Cloudflare can help with bots and scrapers, but where do you start when

protecting an app against people? This is so funny because I personally have had, you know, owning a business that had open subscriptions and things like that.

I've had my fair share of spam and scam and people trying to test credit cards on our site and stuff.

So we're going to go through all of the different ways and strategies that you can enable to prevent spam and fraud on your website.

My name is Scott Tlininsky I'm a developer from

Denver and with me as always is West Boss what's up Wes? Yeah I'm I'm excited to talk

about this because we're gonna give you our our best knowledge but the the

real answer is that the companies that stop you from

doing things on their platforms, they do not talk about how they do it because it's as soon as you tell them why there's an issue even if you put it in the

error message then you tell people how to how to sort of get around it and it's just this constant

cat and mouse game and I'll say it's getting much worse. The experience as a

legitimate user is getting very frustrating I find on the internet. I logged into

chat geeviti the other day and they put me through nine or sorry six steps of

this like fever dream like select the horseshoe when there's this many and it showed a

picture of these like Ows in Wonderland like Dumbo.

What was that?

Was it Pinocchio?

Where he has like that dream?

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