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Old 07-14-2006, 04:11 AM  
gothweb
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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Tons of fake signup

Over the last couple of days, I have seen a big spike of signups on my otherwise fairly quiet site. Normally, great news, right?

Well, what if I told you that I had ten times as many signups as the day before, and five signups in a row were named Allen, and most of the rest for that day had names beginning with an A too? Or that the volume continued, without a spike in traffic, the next day, with an unusual concentration of the same email domains.

My biller is looking into what is happening. What I am trying to figure out is why. These aren't affiliate signups, so what could the motivation be for signing up to the same website a huge number of times? I figured if anyone could think of a motivation for a scam like this, it would be the people on this board.
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