A customer launched a token referral campaign on a Friday. By Saturday morning, 12,000 'new users' had joined — almost all of them fake. We caught it before any rewards paid out.
The signal wasn't one big red flag. It was a dozen small ones that only matter when you correlate them.
CHECKLIST6 ITEMS
Fraud signals we score on every signup
- 01Account age < 7 days
- 02No profile photo or bio
- 03Joined via referral link within seconds of account creation
- 04Same device fingerprint across multiple accounts
- 05Referral graph clustering — too many invites from one source
- 06Activity pattern matches known bot farms
IMPLEMENTATION PLAYBOOK
Turn this into a working Telegram referral bot workflow.
Use the article as the strategy layer, then connect it to Taploop for audience selection, campaign execution, attribution, and follow-up. The SEO goal for this page is to answer the searcher's practical question and route them to the product surface that can run the workflow.
