We successfully blocked 780+ free-tier abusers. The last 24 hours have been the biggest free-tier abuse identification effort we've done so far. These numbers are from across all projects, including thousands of checks. Here is the summary: 1. We saw a spike in fake Gmail accounts. 2. They followed the same patterns in sets. For example, around 50 emails would follow one pattern, then the next 40 would follow another pattern, and so on 3. A lot of sign ups came from disposable email addresses. We also identified a new pattern: registrations from newly created domains that aren't included in any disposable domain lists and aren't tracked by Autheona's scraping engine. These domains were registered within the last 15 days. None of them were from generic TLDs. We estimate that more than $10K in potential abuse was prevented across all products because of these identifications. This is just an estimate and hasn't been calculated precisely.
Sep 8, 2026
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