Hi community,
I see a lot of new fake customer registrations in my shop. They are obviously fake, easily detectable due to random letter combinations instead of names. e.g. First Name: gHnfJCZoaIQ Last Name: ANKFDgUmTHJ and then some real-looking email address, like somebody stole an email address book and registered every email in my shop.
So far I believe nothing negative has come about for me or my shop, and this has been going on for a while now. I just manually clean my customer database every now and then and go about my business. It's not something I have been worried about, and it's easier to keep things clean by hand than trying to find a module which takes care of this I think.
But it makes me wonder:
Why would anyone bother? Why is there somebody, or someone's bot, who populates my shop with fake customer accounts? What can they possibly get out of this? I just can't think of anything sensible right now. Thanks for opinions on this 🙂
Cheers