Prevent Fake Accounts

Keep fake accounts out of your product

Fake accounts distort analytics, waste support time, and create downstream abuse. VerifyWall gives your signup flow a risk score before access is granted.

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The problem

Fake accounts rarely stay isolated. They become spam accounts, free-tier abusers, referral fraud, chargeback risk, scraper accounts, or support burden. The common pattern is weak identity: throwaway email addresses, masked IPs, anonymous networks, and domains that cannot receive mail.

The cost to your business

Fake accounts pollute activation metrics, trigger unnecessary onboarding emails, consume product resources, and make fraud investigations harder. When fake accounts enter your CRM and analytics, every conversion, retention, and support metric becomes less reliable.

How VerifyWall solves it

VerifyWall checks email and IP reputation during registration and returns a risk level your application can act on. Low-risk users continue normally, medium-risk users can be asked for extra verification, and high-risk users can be blocked before they create durable product state.

Detection signals that apply

Disposable Email

Throwaway inboxes used to create accounts with no durable identity

VPN / Tor

Anonymous networks used to hide location and evade duplicate detection

Datacenter IP

Cloud-hosted traffic that often powers automated registration scripts

No MX Records

Domains that cannot receive verification, onboarding, or recovery emails

Integration example

Add VerifyWall to your prevent fake accounts workflow with a single API call:

// Before creating the user
$response = Http::withToken($apiKey)
    ->get('https://verifywall.com/api/v1/check', [
        'q' => $request->email,
    ]);

$check = $response->json('data.attributes');

if ($check['risk_level'] === 'high') {
    return back()->withErrors([
        'email' => 'Please use a valid email address to continue.',
    ]);
}

$user = User::create($validated);

Frequently asked questions

Should every high-risk signup be blocked?

Not always. For self-serve SaaS, high-risk signups are usually safe to block or send to email/phone verification. For marketplaces or regulated products, you may prefer review queues and stronger identity checks.

Can VerifyWall detect one person creating many accounts?

VerifyWall detects the infrastructure signals that make repeat fake accounts possible: disposable emails, anonymous IPs, datacenter traffic, and invalid domains. Pair it with your own account history for stronger duplicate detection.

Where should the check run?

Run the check server-side before creating the account or before granting access to costly product features. That keeps low-risk users moving while stopping obvious abuse early.