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Give it a bit of thought.

At the moment your solution is broken, it's not stopping anyone and providing friction to your genuine users.

These people obviously want to use your service, so revise your pricing/tiers. Don't be so greedy. Find out their pain points, ask them, speak to them directly find out why they're not paying.

Maybe they want to pay you but your payment integration is broken or not supported in their country.

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My service isn't very expensive (one of the lower ones in the industry).

The origins of these people are often problematic countries (places I couldn't accept a payment from even if I wanted to).

Some of these individuals (~30%?) seem to be coming from legit domains and verify their email but don't appear to be the target audience. They often try to pay without using the service. I believe these people have compromised mail servers and are trying to test stolen credit cards.

I'm not greedy.

It's not greedy to not want to give away your work for free. Greedy is wanting everything for free like a hacker.

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