Why are spam user registrations automatically approved?
Automated bot signups are bypassing manual review settings and flooding sites with hundreds of fake accounts every day. This forces administrators to manually delete them daily or resort to disabling registration entirely, which blocks legitimate users from signing up.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Disabling account creation site-wide
- 2Going through hundreds of customers per day manually to delete the fake ones
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Lately though, my site has been flooded with user registrations that are somehow automatically approved, no admin input required.”source ↗
“The only way to stop those fake approved registrations is to disable account creation site-wide which defeats the purpose of having a course that needs registering for access.”source ↗
“destroys the newsletter unless you go through 100s of customers per day and delete the fake ones”source ↗
“see a bunch on my site - highly annoying.”source ↗
“I'm now getting 100s of fake customer accounts per day, 100s of fake newsletter sign ups per day, and a few fake orders”source ↗
Where this came up
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