This is the story of Barry Jones’s most intense year of his 20 year professional career. He was the sole developer hired by a company going through a circus-like ownership transition while criminals actively worked to defraud the 300,000 users of this 14 year old, high end marketplace.
They experienced late nights, numerous technical challenges, worked with abuse response teams, learned a lot of lessons about phishing and fraud, high emotions, death threats and at least one person lost a business that depended on the site. Here’s the story from start to finish, including how to prevent many of these problems on your own site. Buckle up.
The capstone of the multi-part blog series can be found here, published in February this year.
https://www.brightball.com/articles/the-time-i-accidentally-ended-up-combating-fraud-for-a-year
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