# Verifications and identity

Published articles for Verifications and identity.

This is one page of public article previews, not the complete archive. Follow Next page to continue. Summaries are not the original full articles.

## How to Approve Real Users and Block Fake Accounts at Sign Up with Lookup and Verify in PHP

DevFeed: [How to Approve Real Users and Block Fake Accounts at Sign Up with Lookup and Verify in PHP](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-approve-real-users-and-block-fake-accounts-at-sign-up-with-lookup-and-verify-in-php-16096.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.twilio.com/en-us/blog/developers/tutorials/product/block-fake-accounts-lookup-verify-php>)

Author: Kelley Robinson, Matthew Setter

Published: 2026-08-31T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Twilio Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/twilio-blog.md>)

Topics: [PHP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/php.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Tutorial](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tutorial.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [developer-insights](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer-insights.md>), [fake-accounts](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fake-accounts.md>), [fraud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/fraud.md>), [github](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [lookup](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/lookup.md>), [onboarding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/onboarding.md>), [php](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/php.md>), [sign-up](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sign-up.md>), [verifications-and-identity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/verifications-and-identity.md>), [verify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/verify.md>)

### AI overview

This tutorial shows how to use Twilio Lookup and Verify with PHP to collect a user's name and phone number, apply layered phone and identity checks, and block likely fake accounts during sign-up.

### Source excerpt

Learn how to collect a user's name and phone number and conduct a multi-step orchestrated identity verification flow with Twilio's Lookup API.