Stop Multi-Accounting, Botting & Account Takeover in Gaming
Gaming fraud destroys competitive integrity and player trust. From ranked smurfing to bot farming and item duplication, attackers use the same evasion tools — residential proxies and antidetect browsers. Sentinel catches them.
What Gaming platforms face in 2026
Multi-accounting & smurfing
Players create multiple accounts using antidetect browsers and residential proxies to bypass bans, smurf in ranked queues, or farm starting bonuses. Standard fingerprinting is blind to these tools.
Bot farming & automation
Automated bots using headless browsers and residential proxies farm in-game currency, items, or experience — degrading the economy and player experience.
Account takeover for item theft
Credential stuffing bots target gaming accounts to steal rare items, in-game currency, and linked payment methods.
Referral & bonus abuse
Coordinated fake accounts claim new player bonuses, referral rewards, and promotional items using rotating device identities and proxy networks.
What Sentinel does for you
- Detect antidetect browser usage during account creation and login
- Link multi-accounts to the same physical device across IPs and browsers
- Identify headless browser and automation tool usage
- Stop credential stuffing on login without adding CAPTCHAs
- Device-persistent identity that survives cookie clearing and browser switching
reduction in fraudulent activity on a creator/gaming platform in 48 hours
[ Read Full Case Study ]Where the check goes
Three call sites cover the abuse economy: account creation, login, and bonus or reward claims. The verdict returns in under 40ms, which matters in a flow where players notice every hitch — screening happens inside your existing request, not as an extra hop the player waits on.
// Screen bonus claims before crediting anything
const res = await fetch('https://sntlhq.com/v1/evaluate', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Authorization': 'Bearer ' + process.env.SENTINEL_KEY,
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
},
body: JSON.stringify({ token: req.body.sentinel_token })
});
const risk = await res.json();
if (risk.decision === 'block') return res.status(403).json({ error: 'Claim rejected' });
if (risk.decision === 'review') flagForReview(risk.reasons);The signals that matter for gaming
Emulators and virtual machines. Farm operations run dozens of instances on emulators and VMs. Device intelligence flags the virtualization itself plus the tampering used to hide it — signals that survive fresh installs, new accounts, and rotated IPs.
One device, thirty bonus claims. Welcome-bonus abusers create account after account, each behind a new proxy and browser profile. The hardware ID links the claims regardless, which is how bonus abuse rings get unwound in hours instead of after the promo budget is gone.
Antidetect browsers are a professional tell. Nobody runs Kameleo or Dolphin Anty to play casually. Detecting the spoofing artifacts at account creation separates the multi-account operator from the player on a shared university network — which IP-based rules can't do.
Latency is part of the spec. Anti-fraud that adds friction to login or claims costs real players. Sub-40ms verdicts and zero CAPTCHAs mean the honest 99% never see anything at all.
Common questions
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Free tier. 1,000 API requests per hour. No credit card. Detects residential proxies, antidetect browsers, and AI bots.