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mootothemax on Oct 4, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Sniff Out Online Fakers

Surely by flagging them yourself, you wouldn't be accepting their transactions and so first and foremost hurting your own business?

dlss on Oct 4, 2012 [–]

Of course, that's true only if Utility(profit) > Utility(enemy's pain).

I wonder if services like these count as consumer credit services (and hence are governed by all sorts of fairness laws)

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