Why are fake accounts being created on my site? Are Hackers targeting me?
You may have noticed fake customer accounts appearing in your Allmoxy site. Unfortunately, bots are very common all over the internet, and they exist for a myriad of reasons.
There's an ongoing cat-and-mouse game that goes on between bots and software platforms, and a debate about how many measures to take against the bots. Most of the measures to eliminate bot "attacks" take place behind the scenes, but some face the customer. On one hand, security measures can be put in place to verify humans and stop bots. On the other hand, these measures are often cumbersome for humans to navigate and can often turn customers away, resulting in fewer sign-ups.
In most cases, the bots' "attacks" will come in waves. Normally, the bots will realize there is little to be gained and the people behind them will deploy the resources somewhere more fruitful. Normally, the attacks are not deliberately targeted at you for any strategic reason. The bots and people behind them have simply found your site and have decided to try to exploit it.
The type of bots creating fake accounts in your Allmoxy instance are most likely the types that are there to collect data. However, creating customer accounts within your system gives them no access to any of your important info in Allmoxy. There's little they'll be able to do except perhaps place an order that's not legitimate, so it's mostly just a nuisance.
Fortunately, most Allmoxy instance owners have a trigger that will notify someone on your team that a new company has been created so that they can go verify them, give them tags, credit limits, etc. So in the case where the company definitely doesn't look legitimate (like the example below), they can simply be deleted instead of verified.
