How can I prevent scammers from using up my sandbox allotment?
Scammers ruin everything. The best way to slow scammers down is to protect your sandbox creation links (magic links).
Share your magic links only with folks you know and trust. Our best advice is for you to ask your visitor to provide an email address (at the least) before they can see or use your magic link.
You can go a step further, and verify the email you were given was a high-quality email address. A service like
Quick Email Verification can be added to your workflow to filter out low-quality and temporary email domains and blacklisted IP addresses. There are also WordPress plugins and no-code solutions for helping you filter out bad email addresses submitted on your site.
Here's a sample workflow for protecting your magic links from scammers...
Sample Workflow
- Anonymous website visitor clicks a "See a demo button" next to your product
- A form pops up asking for an email (ideally also with Captcha or something similar, to discourage bots)
- An automation fires — could be locally on your website, at your email service provider, or through another third-party tool — to verify email address quality to ensure you're getting real emails and not throwaway emails.
- An email is sent containing your magic link, personalized with your prospect's email in the magic link's email parameter.
- Your lead clicks their personalized magic link and a sandbox is created. They love your product and they purchase a license! 🎉
- Depending on your funnel goals and email service provider, consider having a simple, low-hassle email sequence here to introduce the lead to you and your product.
- Pro tip: have another, separate email sequence that will send out to folks who have not clicked your magic link, reminding them to come back to the site and see your demo.
Feel free to riff on this suggestion; test it out in your business. There's no One-Size-Fits-All solution for what will work best in your situation, so feel free to experiment and share your feedback.
Bottom line: please don't post your magic link in places where anonymous visitors and bots can abuse the sandbox service. It's tough to post magic links on social media and blog posts because you open yourself up for abuse by scammers. Scammer activity uses up the number of sandboxes available to you, and it abuses server resources.
Under our
Acceptable Use Policy, when we find customers sharing magic links in unsafe ways, we may take steps to mitigate the negative impact on our other customers.
We hope this was helpful!
Have you thought of other ways to ward away scammers? Let us know!