- Applications
- Cyberfraud Defense
- Fake Accounts
Defend Against Fraud and Abuse from Fake Account Creation
Prevent bad actors from using fake accounts to exploit your platforms and services.
Fight Fraud by Fake and Puppeted Accounts
Neutralize fake accounts that abuse online platforms and services, including exploiting signup bonuses, engaging in fake online interactions, and committing financial fraud.
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Protect Against Fake Account Abuse
Block the large-scale creation of fake accounts and detect fraudulent activity that indicates exploitation.
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Cut Investigation and Response Time
Get critical investigation information and automatically respond to abusive behavior with custom actions.
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Minimize the Cost of New Account Fraud
Reduce financial loss, customer churn, and negative PR by stopping fake accounts exploiting marketing offers and artificially inflating online engagement.
Key Capabilities
Block bots at the account perimeter and identify activity indicative of fake and puppeted account fraud.
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Protection Across Full Account Sessions
Identify fake account activity by evaluating actions taken at registration and within accounts, and automatically neutralize fake accounts that reach your risk threshold.
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Build Custom Rules and Responses
Easily create multi-criteria rules and responses that automatically trigger when conditions are met. Actions can be custom built via API to interface directly with internal systems.
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Understand Patterns of Fraud
Identify fake accounts being used to commit fraud and abuse. Flag, group, and automatically respond to accounts with common identifiers (e.g. email).
Protecting Customers from Evolving Risks
HUMAN is trusted by global organizations across industries to protect against fake account fraud and abuse.
We were very impressed with how responsive the HUMAN team was to get us this protection and solve our pain before any real damage was done to our reputation. Since then, the product has performed exactly as we expected, accurately stopping bots without any impact on real users. We think we made the right choice in partnering with HUMAN.
Head of Site Reliability Engineering
Zalora
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400%
more bots detected by HUMAN than prior solution
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30%
reduction in hosting and bandwidth costs
Before using HUMAN, we had to manually respond to high levels of bot traffic that was not being caught by our previous solution. After implementation we were very excited to see immediate results. In the first two weeks of using HUMAN 6.6 million page views were protected and 912,000 malicious page views were blocked.
Information Security Officer
Financial Management Software Company
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6.6 million
page views protected in two weeks
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912,000
malicious page views blocked in two weeks
Data security and privacy are critical concerns for our clients, and HUMAN enables Twelve Thirty to go beyond standard protection to ensure unparalleled security and set us apart as an industry leader.
Brad Fishbain
President, Twelve Thirty
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95% reduction
in bot attack impact
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99%+ reduction
in bot attacks seen in one CPG campaign
Threat Intelligence:
The HUMAN Element
The Satori Threat Intelligence and Research Team uncovers, analyzes, and disrupts cyberthreats and fraud schemes that undermine trust across the digital landscape, delivering cutting-edge research that strengthens protection for customers and thwarts bad actors for a safer internet.
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Fight Fake Accounts with HUMAN
Protect against fake and puppeted account fraud and abuse with HUMAN Sightline.
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FAQ
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What is a fake account?
A fake account is a fraudulent or automated account created to impersonate real users or to carry out malicious activities such as spamming, spreading misinformation, or committing fraud. These accounts can be used to manipulate social proof, skew analytics, or abuse loyalty programs. Detecting and blocking fake accounts is essential for maintaining trust, accuracy, and safety in digital platforms.
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What types of fraud and abuse are fake accounts used for?
Common examples include coupon abuse, loyalty program abuse, free trial exploitation, fake reviews and other influence abuse, spamming, malware spreading and testing of stolen credit cards.
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Who creates fake accounts?
Fake account creation is typically carried out by cybercriminals, scammers, or fraud rings that use automation or bots to generate large numbers of accounts quickly. These bad actors may target social networks, ecommerce sites, or financial services platforms to carry out scams, fraud, or other abusive behaviors. Stopping fake account creation helps protect both businesses and their legitimate users from exploitation.
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How do you stop fake account creation?
Stopping fake account creation requires advanced behavioral analysis, device fingerprinting, and real-time detection of unusual activity during the sign-up process. HUMAN’s application protection solutions identify patterns that signal automation or fraud, like rapid sign-ups, repeated data patterns, or traffic from known bad IPs, and block those accounts before they can cause any harm.
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How does HUMAN detect fake accounts?
HUMAN detects fake accounts by monitoring interactions across the full digital journey. By analyzing behaviors that bots can’t mimic, like natural browsing patterns, mouse movements, and timing irregularities, HUMAN can flag and stop fraudulent accounts in real time. This ensures that only genuine users are able to engage, helping businesses protect revenue and reputation.
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Can HUMAN stop other types of online fraud?
Yes, in addition to preventing fake account creation, HUMAN defends against a wide range of automated threats including account takeovers, ad fraud, and transaction abuse. Our solutions are built to protect businesses from multiple forms of online fraud, ensuring a safer experience for both organizations and their users.
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