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I'm doing administration for a website where users can register and play arcade games. Top 3 best players get the prize from shopping mall which owns the site. The thing is, I'm getting many spam registrations and I want to limit registrations to a city where the mall is located. Any suggestions how to achieve this?

Lazar

Jack Bonneman
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Lazar Jovanetic
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  • Can you provide a site link? – Ahmed Ginani May 10 '17 at 13:25
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    You can use `https://github.com/maxmind/GeoIP2-php` but city provided is not 100% accurate. If your ISP is in the next city so are you. Also, IPs can be faked, so it's not a bulletproof solution. Instead of limiting it to the city I'd do as Eduardo says in an answer, use a captcha to keep bots away. – Marc Compte May 10 '17 at 13:58

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One simple solution to avoid "bots"/"spam", is to use a captcha system.

Here is a plugin for that:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-recaptcha-integration/

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  • Thank you for your reply, but the client is asking that users only can register from his city because hi will send gifts to the most active users. – Lazar Jovanetic May 11 '17 at 07:48