Title: Bogus Users
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Bogus Users

 *  [dwier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwier/)
 * (@dwier)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bogus-users/)
 * At first I thought I was fortunate in that I had over 5k users sign up for my
   site as users. Then, I started noticing that the email addresses were basically
   following a pattern, and then, many were coming from .ru or gmail or yahoo, or
   hotmail and others.
 * i tried blacklisting some domains and adding a captcha, but I still get users
   that I really have no confidence in. Plus, with the ads on my site, with that
   many users, I should be getting more income, so I know they’re bogus.
 * How can I get around this and also verify that the email addresses people use
   are real?

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 *  [Michael Tieso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vskylabv/)
 * (@vskylabv)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bogus-users/#post-5081574)
 * Do you need registration enabled for any reason on your site? If not, I recommend
   shutting off that functionality entirely right here [http://cld.wthms.co/ULln](http://cld.wthms.co/ULln).
   If you do need registration, I recommend looking into plugins that will help 
   you add some sort of Captcha functionality or anything else that may help combat
   registration spam.
 *  Thread Starter [dwier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwier/)
 * (@dwier)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bogus-users/#post-5081639)
 * As I said, I have Captcha functionality – plus domain blacklists – so far nothing
   is working. I would like to have registration so that if and when I try to sell
   the site, it has monetary meaningfullness. but I need to make sure emails are
   verified. Is there any plug in that will make the user click on a link to verify
   it?

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 * Last reply from: [dwier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwier/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bogus-users/#post-5081639)
 * Status: not resolved

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