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How Arkose Email Intelligence Stopped Mass Fake Account Creation in Gaming

Discover how Arkose Email Intelligence stopped millions of fake gaming accounts, delivering a 24% fraud detection lift and safeguarding major email domains.



Discover how Arkose Email Intelligence stopped millions of fake gaming accounts, delivering a 24% fraud detection lift and safeguarding major email domains.

What You’ll Learn

  • How a global gaming company uncovered widespread fake account creation

    How unreliable, disposable, and fraudulent email addresses were enabling attackers to flood the platform with fake accounts and degrade the in-game experience.


  • Why missing email validation created a major vulnerability in registration

    Insight into how nonsensical handles, invalid domains, and ambiguous email formats bypassed traditional defenses and opened the door to large-scale abuse.


  • How Arkose Email Intelligence evaluates email risk in real time

    How deep analysis across numerous email signals identifies risky addresses at the moment of registration, preventing fraudulent accounts before they propagate.


  • How combining email intelligence with device, IP, and behavioral signals improves detection

    Why unified analysis is more effective against both high-volume bursts and slow-building abuse patterns that typically evade detection.


  • How early intervention protects game integrity and enhances player trust

    How the solution preserved a seamless onboarding flow for legitimate players while filtering out malicious registrants.


FAQ

Why was the gaming company overwhelmed by fake account creation?

Because the registration flow lacked proper email validation, attackers were free to use disposable, invalid, or subtly altered email addresses. This allowed both high-intensity bot attacks and slow, human-driven sign-ups to pass as legitimate, resulting in a swelling population of fraudulent accounts.

How does Arkose Email Intelligence identify fraudulent email addresses?

Arkose Email Intelligence analyzes dozens of real-time signals across multiple vectors—evaluating email legitimacy, structure, domain integrity, and risk indicators. By correlating this with device and behavioral data, it flags risky registrations immediately, preventing fake accounts from being created.

Why does integrating email intelligence with broader bot and risk-management systems matter?

Standalone email checks can identify invalid or suspicious addresses, but they cannot correlate email risk with behavioral anomalies, device fingerprints, or IP patterns. Arkose Email Intelligence operates within a holistic detection framework, exposing nuanced attack patterns—including low-and-slow accumulation and domain-targeted abuse—that would otherwise go unnoticed.