Bots and fake signups get through popup and form apps
Sign-up and popup apps let bots and fake accounts or emails in, with no spam filtering or CAPTCHA protection
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
5 public reports · first reported 1 January 2019 · last reported 26 March 2026
What's going wrong
Merchants using sign-up forms and popup apps from several different vendors report that bots and fake accounts get through with no spam filtering, CAPTCHA, or address verification.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 5 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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