I see (I think). They're processing their own forms (order and payment) themselves, then, in turn, mapping the same sequence on your site. Does this mean that every time an order is made and paid on their site that they cause the same on yours? Are you getting the original customer name, addy, etc., or would you know?

Real-time detection is possibly the first goal. Unless there is something unique you can detect in the incoming 'ghost' client that you can block with, maybe you can work to detect duplicate payments, shipping addresses etc on the tail of the transaction - which assumes that your new 'partners' are ordering from you then re-shipping to their customer.

If they are taking the customer data from their own forms and re-submitting it to you, including payment (CC#?) info to you - with a markup - how are they collecting their markup? If they are collecting their full payment using the customer's payment data, THEN resending that same payment data to you, effectively double-billing the buyer, this is a much different type of problem and you should be contacting law enforcement.

From the looks of your other responses in this thread - methinks you need to do both - tech and legal. If you have a product that is inspiring so much theft/fraud, you need to protect it immediately - but not so protected that it can't be sold at all... :)

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Thwarting Screen Scrapers by tjh
in thread Thwarting Screen Scrapers by kschwab

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.