Prevent fraudulent signups can damage your reputation and clog your email list with worthless subscribers. They can also skew key platform metrics like user numbers, engagement and performance data, resulting in wasted marketing spend and unnecessarily challenging operations.

Often, fraudsters use fake accounts to gain access to sensitive information and carry out malicious attacks. This can include account takeover, spam, and even phishing to steal personal information or commit identity theft.

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While it’s important to verify the identities of new users using robust ID checks, it can be costly and time consuming for a business to run background checks or pull credit reports. Preventing fraudulent signups by deploying preventative verification strategies such as CAPTCHA, email verification and blocking VPNs and proxies can help your business save both time and money while protecting your customers’ privacy.

Detecting and preventing fake signups is critical to maintaining the quality of your email list, improving engagement metrics and ensuring legal compliance. But it’s also a time-consuming task for marketing teams to manually review and remove suspicious or fake subscribers from your list. Integrating a solution like IPQS can improve the experience of real customers, reduce the burden on your team and free up resources for more valuable work. By combining IP block lists, VPN and proxy detection, domain and DNS validation, email verification and more, our solution prevents registration fraud by identifying high-risk signups in real-time, stopping bad actors before they get a chance to create an account or use your product.