The scam artists and the spammers will learn how to spoof their IP address. Or, just start using VPNs and proxies. It doesn't matter to them as they will find a way around, precisely because their livelihood depends on it.
On the other hand, the genuine users will be the one who suffer. They simply won't have the inclination to spend their entire time trying to engage in subterfuge against your "defenses". They'll throw their hands up. Grumble a bit. Say fuck you for a while and just give up in sheer hopelessness.
At the end this won't punish the sp/cammers. You'll end up targeting whose only crime is honesty. I don't think that's what you want.
There's a saying where I live that sums this up; "locks only exist for the innocent".
You can't spoof an IP address and expect to get the traffic back.
They could use VPNs and proxies, and that would shift the focus from the third world to VPNs and proxies in the first world.
If those operators don't comply, you could have them IP filtered also. But also - we have better options for dealing with nasty traffic when the originating IP is in the first world.
It doesn't matter to them as they will find a way
around, precisely because their livelihood depends
on it.
That's no more true than it would be to say that having high levels of organised crime is inevitable because people's livelihoods depend on it. It may be true that it's inevitable that you'll have a little bit, but not that it will be universal.
On the other hand, the genuine users will be the one
who suffer.
True, but genuine users suffer from the current mess. There's a culture of nastiness about the internet. That wild west culture. I think it will be civilised one way or another. I'd rather do it through something like IP filters than watch the community migrate into gated communities like facebook.
The problem with fighting crime is escalation. In the real world, the mafias have to face logistical problems to create a response, but on the internet escalation is just a hack away. That's what I was trying to say. The solution, then, is not to "fight" crime, but to weed it out and choke it to death.
If you make just the right investments in nigeria then over time this will change. Everything else is temporarily. You might even figure out a way to use machine learning to statistically weed out the spammers visits by looking at how and where they click (bots and humans), but that peace will last for only so long.
The lasting solution would be to address the root cause of this, which is something I just don't know and understand. (I might not know what the solutions are, but I can see what isn't a solution)
The scam artists and the spammers will learn how to spoof their IP address. Or, just start using VPNs and proxies. It doesn't matter to them as they will find a way around, precisely because their livelihood depends on it.
On the other hand, the genuine users will be the one who suffer. They simply won't have the inclination to spend their entire time trying to engage in subterfuge against your "defenses". They'll throw their hands up. Grumble a bit. Say fuck you for a while and just give up in sheer hopelessness.
At the end this won't punish the sp/cammers. You'll end up targeting whose only crime is honesty. I don't think that's what you want.
There's a saying where I live that sums this up; "locks only exist for the innocent".