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# Auto-block spam bots

# Overview
**Auto-block spam bots** is an automated protection layer designed to identify and block malicious bots. These bots typically engage in disruptive behavior, such as attempting to create mass fake user accounts ("spam sign-ups") or initiating fraudulent checkout processes that they never intend to complete ("fake checkouts").

#### **Benefits of Using This Feature**
Activating this feature provides several key benefits for your store:
* **Protect Customer Data:** Prevents your customer and email lists from being flooded with junk accounts, ensuring your data remains clean and accurate
* **Prevent Fake Orders:** Reduces the number of phantom orders and abandoned carts in your system, saving you administrative time and preventing confusion
* **Enhance Security:** Safeguards your registration forms and checkout pages from malicious automated activity
* **Minimize Spam:** Limits the creation of fake accounts that could be used for sending spam or engaging in other fraudulent activities.

# How to Activate and Use
You can easily enable or disable this feature with a single click.
**Step 1: Navigate to Settings**
From the app's admin dashboard, go to **Settings** and select the **Mitigator** tab.
**Step 2: Activate the Feature**
Locate the **Auto-block spam bots** section. You will see a toggle switch on the right-hand side.
* To **enable** the feature, click the toggle switch to the right until it displays **On** (in green).
* To **disable** it, click the toggle switch to the left.
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Once enabled, the system will automatically analyze traffic and block visitors that exhibit the behavior of a spam bot.

**Blocking a bot that is not covered automatically**

If a bot slips past the automatic spam-bot protection, you can block it by its User-Agent string. Create a Block user agent rule with **Type** set to **Regex**, then use **Generate with AI** and describe the bot — for example, "block AhrefsBot and SemrushBot". See [Add a new rule to block](https://help.omegatheme.com/en/article/add-a-new-rule-to-block-1b7j9f2/) for the full walkthrough.