You now need to have a variety of fake addresses you can use, since scammed addresses will get banned. You also need fake IDs. So again, the bar has now been raised from "run a bot to make fake Facebook accounts" to "I have a large number of physical addresses and the ability to create arbitrary fake government IDs".
reply> Amazon has a huge problem with packages being sent to fake people at different addresses.
This usually involves those people getting weird packages and not doing anything with them, it doesn't require attacker-controlled addresses.
I still think it’s doable. Fake IDs aren’t exactly hard to come by. You could also pay randos a $30 gift card to sign up for a developer account and share access. Enough people will do it. I guess this does raise the cost a little though.
reply> You could also pay randos a $30 gift card to sign up for a developer account and share access. Enough people will do it.
replyThis could work, but the issue here is that a lot of these scams rely on the "zero cost"-ness of turnup and use that as a asymmetry. If it costs you nothing to turn up new scam-accounts, and it costs me something to investigate and remove them, you win. If it costs you $10 to create new scam accounts then as long as I can get the EV of a scam account below $10, the scam isn't worthwhile.