Sign Up Protection

Not every user who tries to create an account on your site has good intentions. Some are malicious actors attempting to create multiple accounts—whether for account aging and laying the groundwork for future fraud attacks or for abusing new account related discounts. Stopping abuse and fraud at the entry point protects your account ecosystem in multiple ways. It helps prevent losses from users exploiting promotions, ensures compliance with your terms and conditions, and allows you to measure meaningful customer metrics accurately—giving you greater control over your ecosystem.

The Account Sign-Up API helps prevent fraudulent account creation by providing approve/decline decisions in real time when a user attempts to register. Implementing the Account Sign-Up API is seamless, as outlined in the process below.

Account Sign Up API Main Use Cases

There are a number of ways you can utilize the account sign up protection offered by this API. The Account Sign Up API can be used to enforce the following scenarios:

• Multiple Account Abuse: To prevent the user from creating an account if they’ve already created [X number] of accounts using alternate identifiers (email, phone).
  • Promotional/Incentive/Bonus Abuse: To prevent the user from creating an account if they’ve already used a referral code [X number] times with any other credentials.
  • Referral Abuse: To prevent the user from creating an account using a referral code if they’ve already used a referral code [X number] times with any other credentials.
• Fake Accounts: To prevent the user from creating an account if any of their known aliases have been previously blocked due to fraud in the Forter ecosystem.
• Seller-side Abuse: To prevent sellers from creating an account if any of their known aliases have been previously blocked due to fraud, abuse, or another policy violation.
• T&C Abuse: To prevent the user from creating an account if any of their known aliases have been previously blocked due to policy violation. An example may be: To prevent the user from creating an account if they are flagged by merchant as a known abuser.
• Bot Protection: To prevent Bots from generating accounts on your platform