Php check similarity of multiple strings

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I have a website that allow users to create accounts to refer others friend. And save these accounts into Database Table. But I have a problem is there's some people who create multiple account with email like nike@gmail.com, nike1@gmail.com, nike2@gmail.com and so on.

Is there a way to check that in the database is these email have more that three block all these email?

I am using Php for this application.

Are you sure this is a good idea. For each one of these you block, there may be a legitimate use such as foo.bar@msn.com and foobar@msn.com. — slugonamission, Jan 31 '13 at 17:46
Yes there's a way but you will end up with lots of false positives. How will you know that `nike@...` is not someone different from `nike1@...`? — jmbertucci, Jan 31 '13 at 17:49
Because I dont want some spammers, who craete lot of emails like 1,2,3,4,5,6 and so on. — Ya Fa Su, Jan 31 '13 at 17:51
what you can try is register they ip on database and compare later. — Toping, Jan 31 '13 at 18:06

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 31 '13 at 17:52

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Well it isn't seems to be problem actually. Because, There can be different users with slight difference in their email id.

How can you tell that user with email ids : nike1@gmail.com and nike2@gmail.com are the same that of nike@gmail.com ?

but how ever if you want to check so :

1) You can remove the last numbers by using the regx or something similar 2) Then can check the original email id if it exists in your database.

answered Jan 31 '13 at 17:52

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Thanks, yea maybe your guys are right. – Ya Fa Su Jan 31 '13 at 17:57

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