If you are having your own site and already bothered by some fake registrations or if you have just initiated your own shopping store and long to keep it protected against spams, then a tool to prevent spam registrations is a must prerequisite to follow. This piece of blog recommends all those addons, that can make your website live longer and safer.

Virtual or digital black sheep, known as Spammers are the annoying bots, who enjoy making fool out of people. Spammers produce a spam, i-e an electronic entity through which bulk of messages and emails are released. The web is full of such malicious parties, which create dent on the websites and do bogus purchases on buying stores. Your website’s SEO is harmed either way.

Steps To Prevent Spam Registrations

1. Email verification

There are many third party plugins and services to render better and safer user registration to the website owners. Choosing a specific stronger password, word verification, a user website address, a user’s address , confirming password, etc helps to verify the user. Many plugins are used to block the spammers and ensure better utilization and safer environment to the admin. Likewise, purchasing sites use the same utilities to prevent spammer from the site.

2. Credit Card Verification

In the E-commerce transactions, many merchants fall prey to the fraud card transactions in the card-present environment.  Since, people even have unauthenticated (black) Paypal accounts. Hence, the E-commerce merchants need to validate all bank cards submitted for payment or atleast 2 checkouts from different cards. They lack the facility of retailers physically checking the card’s features, which helps to determine whether or not the card has been tampered with. Still, there are other verification tools disposed to the e-commerce owners, as checking the security code, Using the Mod 10 algorithm etc.

3. Phone Call Verification

The automated phone verification system provides a way to combat the cyber frauds. With this automated service, the users provides their telephone numbers, which are easily traceable and can be known working. Users get a computerized telephone call to provide authorization code. This lessens the threat of business getting hacked.

4. SMS verification

At many places, this service is used to verify the user authentication such as Telesign. A pin code is dispatched to the user’s phone via a text message, which is needed to be input by the user on the registration form or the invoice details. In case, if the user fails to get a message from the service provider, which deteriorates the situation and unavoidable by the user.

5. Captcha on Registration Forms

A simple Captche on registration and login forms can save a lot of effort to prevent spam registrations and bot login attempts. Captchas block the entry of spammers to your sites and ensures advanced protection against spam bots, if the user fails to click on the appropriate color on the screen or write the correct combination of numbers and alphabets, design a specific shape etc. IceCaptcha, reCaptcha, KeyCaptcham Multiplication Captcha etc are other known anti-spam wordpress plugins used to authenticate users, their purchases, their blog comments.

Well, these were the steps through which you can easily prevent spam registrations and purchases on your Website. If you know more effective steps which we forget to include in the list, do let us know in the comment section below. Have safe Blogging 🙂