Agent WranglersSign-up fraud and abuse
Score each sign-up from a few signals, give new accounts low limits until they earn trust, and spot banned people who come back.
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Score every sign-up for risk
TNS-11Give each sign-up a risk score from a fixed list of signals, and act on it in three bands. Allow the low band, challenge the middle band and hold the high band for review.
Give new accounts low limits until they earn trust
TNS-12Limit what an account can do in its first days. Cap posts with links, messages to strangers, invitations and uploads per day, and lift each cap after a fixed age and clean history.
Spot banned people who sign up again
TNS-13When you suspend an account for abuse, keep keyed hashes of its email, phone and payment card fingerprint. Raise the risk score of any new sign-up that matches one.
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