iam:attack:fake

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Spam or fake form submissions can be made by:

Example of form:

Fake form submission happen due to bots that scour the internet looking for signup forms to fill in.

Most fake account/sign up are created by two bots:

They want to spam via functionality such as Tell a Friend
They are looking for weaknesses in the site and hoping to exploit it for further gain.
It could also be to gather your email address and send you spam.
Damage your email campaigns. Wen a large number of fake signups (with real addresses) send your newsletter to the spam folder. This can trigger your subscribers’ email service providers to mark all your email as spam.

Fake accounts:

The newsletter signup can be hijacked by bots to send emails en mass to apparently valid email addresses causing:

Protection may be used due to the specific behavior of this bot. See bad bot protection

Spambot are not really good at data generation and a simple data validation is another layer of protection.

To block the creation of fake account, there may be ruled on the name.

For instance, Facebook