# Suspicious submissions

**URL:** <https://community.drivendata.org/t/suspicious-submissions/11319>\
**Category:** Poverty Prediction Challenge\
**Created:** [February 2, 2026, 5:03pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/suspicious-submissions/11319 "2026-02-02T17:03:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Santa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@Santa](https://community.drivendata.org/u/Santa)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 5:03pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/suspicious-submissions/11319/1 "2026-02-02T17:03:06Z")

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Hi,

Some suspicious submissions have appeared today :

- Only new accounts
- 3 submissions each
- Almost the exact sames scores
- Submissions were made within a few hours

It looks like multi-accounts. But I hope there’s another rational explanation !

 ![suspicious_submissions](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/drivendata1/original/2X/6/63fc77f9216ac21c50c71214acca842502d0ac86.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![504aldo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/f6c823/32.png) [@504aldo](https://community.drivendata.org/u/504aldo)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2026, 10:17pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/suspicious-submissions/11319/2 "2026-02-02T22:17:28Z")

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yes, those are multi accounts. Someone is trying which of his/her solutions lands the top spots. I doubt something will be done.

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**Author:** ![J\_Rakesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@J\_Rakesh](https://community.drivendata.org/u/J_Rakesh)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 7:36am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/suspicious-submissions/11319/3 "2026-02-03T07:36:58Z")

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How the [@drivendata-staff](https://community.drivendata.org/groups/drivendata-staff) are going to identify the multi-account participants. They are spoiling the spirit of the competition.

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**Author:** ![Santa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@Santa](https://community.drivendata.org/u/Santa)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2026, 8:00am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/suspicious-submissions/11319/4 "2026-02-03T08:00:06Z")

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More and more suspicious accounts are appearing …

If nothing is being done, this will affect Drivendata’s reputation. And I won’t participate ever again in any of their competition 😅

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**Author:** ![Santa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@Santa](https://community.drivendata.org/u/Santa)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 8:43am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/suspicious-submissions/11319/6 "2026-02-05T08:43:57Z")

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This doesn’t mean anything, people sometimes don’t need many submissions to get great scores.

Anyway, I would be very curious to see the best solution, to see what method he found.

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**Author:** ![chrisk-dd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5ac83/32.png) [@chrisk-dd](https://community.drivendata.org/u/chrisk-dd)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 12:58pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/suspicious-submissions/11319/7 "2026-02-06T12:58:28Z")

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Thanks @Santa and @J_Rakesh for your vigilance and concern.

The top solutions will be checked for adherence to the challenge rules as the verification process is carried out. Any detected cheating will result in disqualification.