Fair Play Is the Foundation of Fitness Gaming
When real money is at stake, fair play is not optional — it is essential. Cadoo has built comprehensive anti-cheat and anti-fraud systems to ensure that every player competes on a level playing field. If you win on Cadoo, you earned it. Here is how the system works.
Anti-Farming Guard
The anti-farming guard prevents players from exploiting the system through repeated self-participation. It detects and blocks:
- Self-participation — You cannot create a challenge and then be the sole participant to guarantee a win
- Overlapping step challenges — Joining multiple step-based games that run at the same time and counting the same steps for all of them (double-dipping)
- Excessive repeat participation — Suspicious patterns of repeatedly joining games from the same organizer
Activity Family Restriction
Cadoo groups activities into families. Running, walking, and steps are one family. Cycling and indoor bike are another. You cannot join two games in the same activity family that run simultaneously. This prevents a player from, say, joining a running challenge and a walking challenge and counting the same outdoor jog for both.
Double-Dip Prevention
Even within different activity families, Cadoo monitors for overlapping activity submissions. One recorded workout cannot count toward multiple games. If the system detects that the same activity data is being submitted to more than one challenge, it flags the submission for review.
Video Duplicate Detection
For rep-based challenges verified by CadooVision, the system checks video timestamps. If the same recorded timestamp from the same user appears in multiple submissions, the duplicate is rejected. You cannot record one set of pushups and submit it to multiple challenges or resubmit old videos.
Cheating Reports
The Cadoo community plays an active role in fair play. Any player can report suspicious activity in a challenge. Reports are reviewed by the Cadoo admin team, and appropriate action is taken — from warnings to disqualification to account suspension for repeat offenders.
Deposit-Withdrawal Matching
To prevent money laundering and fraud, Cadoo requires that withdrawals go to the same payment method used for deposits. If you deposited with a Visa ending in 4242, you withdraw to that same card (matched by card fingerprint). If you deposited via PayPal, you withdraw to the same PayPal email. This ensures money flows through verified channels.
72-Hour Cooldown
You cannot deposit and then immediately withdraw, or vice versa. There is a 72-hour cooldown between deposit and withdrawal actions. This prevents abuse of payment processing and ensures funds are being used for actual gameplay.
Weekly Withdrawal Limit
Withdrawals are capped at $250 per week, including any pending cashout requests. This limit protects against rapid fund extraction in compromised accounts and ensures sustainable cash flow for the platform.
CadooVision Form Scoring
The AI does not just count reps — it scores them. Each pushup, situp, and squat is evaluated for proper form. Half-reps, shallow movements, and incomplete range of motion are flagged. This prevents players from speed-cranking sloppy reps to inflate their count. Learn more about how CadooVision works.
Play Fair, Get Paid
Cadoo's anti-cheat systems exist to protect honest players. When you win, you know everyone else in the challenge was held to the same standard. Download Cadoo on the App Store or Google Play and compete with confidence.
Cadoo works for everyone — whether you're a fitness brand looking to boost fitness brand marketing and engagement through branded fitness challenges, a corporate wellness program manager building employee wellness and workplace fitness challenge initiatives for team building fitness and employee engagement, a personal trainer or fitness professional motivating clients through group fitness and coaching, or a family looking for a family fitness challenge and community fitness experience. With real money on the line, Cadoo is the ultimate fitness motivation and workout accountability tool — the fitness challenge app where you get paid to exercise with money motivation fitness. Challenge your friends in a group fitness challenge, try fitness with friends, or start a neighborhood fitness movement. For brands, explore fitness sponsorship and fitness brand activation opportunities with fitness instructor partnerships.
Questions? Contact Tim Parsa, Co-Founder and CEO of Cadoo — the fitness gaming platform. Reach out at tim@cadoo.io
