Case Study: Award Force eliminates fake accounts and voting fraud with DataDome

Award Force - Customer Case Study

Award Force, a cloud-based platform that streamlines submissions, judging and public voting for awards and grants, faced rampant bot attacks that created fake accounts, skewed votes and generated spam. After IP blacklists, honeypots and a costly Captcha proved inadequate, Award Force chose DataDome’s bot-protection middleware to stop fraudulent data creation and protect its global customer base.

DataDome deployed real-time bot detection with shared intelligence, blocking bad traffic from day one and propagating defenses against new threats in under 50 milliseconds. With DataDome stopping fake account creation and fraudulent voting, Award Force freed its client-success and engineering teams from constant remediation—“most of our problems just disappeared”—and saw a clear reduction in fraud and support overhead.

Award Force

Kirk Bushell

Technical Director