How Gravity Helped a Customer Defend Against 300 Fake Accounts & Stolen Cards
by KyleRecently, one of my customers' products – CodeTutor (https://codetutor.ai) – began to take off and attract attention.
Attention isn't always good – one bad actor spammed her product with over 300 fake accounts and 30 fraudulent charges with stolen credit cards, prompting concerned emails from Stripe.
"Honestly, I was freaking out! it was so stressful seeing the notifications and worrying Stripe was going to freeze my account."
A similar situation happened to me years ago at my previous startup and almost cost us $18,000! So ensuring Gravity is secure has always been a top priority for me.
Fortunately, email verification was top of the list on the new feature voting roadmap I implemented for Gravity, and I shipped the feature just as Randall was having this issue.
She pulled the changes from the Gravity repo and, within minutes, ended the fake accounts and fraudulent charges.
https://blog.usegravity.app/saving-a-customer-from-300-fake-accounts-stolen-credit-cards/
