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by I_dev_outdoors 1883 days ago
I'm having the same issue with a project I'm working on. Did you end up doing anything to mitigate random signups with fake emails? For me, they all follow the same pattern so I can usually guess which users are fake but I haven't been able to programmatically block them yet.
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Any chance the user agents are the same? On some form spam I've seen often only a few user agents with some really old browser versions are used.
Yes and no. It looks like there are at least two different tools creating users on my platform. One of them looks likes it's using chromedriver, and the other one has a varying user agent but some other constant things that they do.

In my case, it's pretty easy to tell a real user from who has an email that matches up with the username and what form they used to signup.