multiple account question

Discussion in 'Setting-up protection' started by juniorm, Nov 16, 2008.

  1. juniorm

    juniorm aMember Pro Customer

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    Is there a way to stop a user signing up for my free product with the same IP address and setting up multiple accounts?


    Is there a way of perhaps detecting a user has logged in with the same ip address, so I can perhaps lock the account - or auto-lock it?
  2. skippybosco

    skippybosco CGI-Central Partner Staff Member

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    This would have to be custom coded (and if it were me I would put it in the unique username/email login check)..

    Alternatively you could either require email validation for signup or charge a nominal fee like 1 cent.
  3. 03jord33

    03jord33 New Member

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    I too need to be able to block a user from signing up to my free trial twice. What custom code needs to be added to do this?

    Is there a way to search in amember if the same ip address was used twice to signup for the same product?

    I don't want to charge anything for the free trial and I don't want it to be necessary to have a PayPal account or Alertpay, etc. to get a free trial. However some people will abuse this and so there needs to be a way to block ips from signing up to a single product twice.

    As a suggestion, this should be an option you can enable when creating a new products, have you considered adding this?
  4. davidm1

    davidm1 aMember User & Partner

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    you can ban IPs.

    amember admin / setup / ban

    I'd send out a warning email if they do it 2x and say theyll will be banned if they do it again.

    David

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