PRICE MINING PREVENTION SYSTEMS AND RELATED METHODS

A price-mining prevention system, in various embodiments, is configured for: (A) detecting an access to a particular web page containing pricing information; (B) determining whether a source of the access is an individual employed by one or more competitors of a company that owns the particular web page being accessed; and (C) at least partially in response to determining that the individual is employed by one or more competitors of a company that owns the particular web page being assessed, taking one or more defensive actions against the source of the access. The step of determining whether the individual is employed by a competitor of the company may comprise scanning a post made on one or more public message boards to determine, based on the content of the post, whether the message board poster is employed by a competitor of a company that owns the particular web page.