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Besides the allowlist, what automatically stops fake or spam accounts from signing up on my site?
Every registration (including via the API) runs through a set of automatic checks before the account is created — none of these need to be configured by you:
- Disposable/throwaway email domains are rejected.
- Bot-pattern names (known fake name pairs used by carding bots) are rejected.
- Spam names — a URL stuffed into the name field, or the same promotional phrase duplicated into both name fields — are rejected (this catches link/SEO spam signup waves).
- Datacenter/proxy network signups are blocked, even if that network is on the login allowlist — the allowlist only protects existing customers' logins, not brand-new signups.
- IP velocity — too many signups from the same IP in a short window — is blocked.
- Global velocity — a burst of signups site-wide in a short window, even from different IPs — is blocked as a backstop.
Every blocked attempt is logged and shows up in Signup Allowlist > Recent blocked signups so you can allowlist a real customer who gets caught by mistake (viewing that log is limited to Sprwt SuperAdmins). A signup form can optionally also require a CAPTCHA challenge, but that's off by default and not exposed as a Client Config toggle in the current version.
Where to find it:
/admin/signupallowlist