Topic: Another faucet dies. Does anyone care? (Read 1674 times)

Or better, do you allow VPN/proxy?


User signup won't solve anything. Read the "Micro Earnings" threads; Users hate signing up.
If a scammer has access to multiple IPs, he will also have access to multiple domains, email addresses, ...

Is your faucet users must signup with e-mail confirmation?

How come I don't have issues on FG with bots?

Regarding captcha, that's nonsense.

Why would anyone pay 2 cents to solve a captcha, if he's getting < 2 cents?

How come I don't have issues on FG with bots?

Regarding captcha, that's nonsense.

Why would anyone pay 2 cents to solve a captcha, if he's getting < 2 cents?

There are a few ways to get a hold of numerous IP addresses, one of these being controlling a botnet.  I doubt any sort of "team" would collaborate to scrape a few dollars from individuals faucets, it just wouldn't be worth the time.

I too was amazed to see that I get scammed for a lousy 500 satoshi. Since the last attack came from the owner/company who owns thousands of IP addresses I can only assume that there are big "organised" teams behind this. Who else has access to that many IP addresses?

I hesitated a while wether or not to post this message. Here it goes anyway.


I will soon be shutting down my faucet. I spent hundreds of hours coding it and I feel really depressed by the decision I had to made.
I enjoyed making making my site and -most of the time- enjoyed running and maintaining it.

Today I don't enjoy it anymore. I can't handle the bot attacks anymore. I got another bot attack today. I have some serious anti-bot measurements so luckily I didn't lose a lot of money.

The IP addresses used in the attack were all owned by "Trusov Ilya Igorevych".
More info about this company/man can be found here: http://www.port43whois.com/?query=5.189.204.12

This person/company has hundreds, perhaps even thousands of IP addresses, all over the world. A lot of them are NOT marked as vpn/proxy traffic by NastyHosts.
Some of you might know that NastyHosts is the standard security IP checker in the FaucetinaBOX script. It goes without saying that A LOT of faucets are currently being attacked and are losing money.



It hurts me to see that people here on this forum are offering/joining CAPTCHA services. Those who join probably don't understand that these services are used to bypass the faucets security measurements. Faucets will put up anti-bot links, additional captchas, ... but it has no use; The scammers will eventually win.

I always keep wondering: How many of the people that claim at my faucet joined these CAPTCHA services to earn something extra? All this just to make a few lousy dollars. It is stealing. Nothing more, nothing less. I start to believe that people who are interested in BTC will sell out for just a few lousy dollars. There are no more moral values in the BTC world. It makes me sick. I always believed in the kindness and honesty of others.

So, soon another faucet will dissappear. Does anyone care?
I already know the answer.



Edited to add:
If anyone is interested in buying my faucet: Open for all offers.

Not worth running a faucet anymore, you're wasting time with it

i iam also interestet in your script

PM sent.

Sorry if this is dumb question but what exactly is your faucet? You mention that you are taking offers for the faucet if anyone wants to buy it... Well it is a bit hard to make any kind of offer when I have no idea which faucet you own. For example "freebitco.in" and "BeztBTC4Free4Realz.tk.co.uk" are probably in hugely different price categories.

show me your script you have a demo or url ?