Fake user registration prevention tool occurs when unauthorized users use fake information to create an account on your website, application or platform. The fraudsters can use stolen or fabricated identities to abuse free trials, bypass geo location filters, spam your email newsletters and more. This type of fraudulent activity can cost businesses up to $3 billion per year in financial losses and resource drains.

One of the most common ways to prevent new user registrations is through requiring double opt-in. Although this can be annoying for real users, it’s a great way to catch bots and non-existing accounts. Other options include invisible CAPTCHA codes, rate limiting and a contact form anti-spam plugin like ShieldPRO.

Fake User Registration Prevention Tool: Enhance Security Measures

Another way to detect fake accounts is by leveraging phone verification. By collecting a new user’s phone number during the registration process, you can validate the validity of their identity and close the loophole on bad actors that use burner or disposable email addresses.

In addition to these methods, you can also use behavioral analytics and IP identification to detect the presence of malicious bots that try to sign up for your business. Identifying devices and user-agent patterns, usage velocities, geographic regions and other data anomalies helps you to identify and stop this form of fake sign ups. Radware’s Intent-based Deep Behavioral Analysis (IDBA) recognizes the human-like behaviors of sophisticated bots, making it easier to differentiate between fake and legitimate traffic. It then provides custom actions based on bot types, such as showing challenges like CAPTCHAs to suspected non-human traffic, disrupting automated attempts and preventing new user registrations.