It should be pointless for cheaters. I guess freebitcoin can easily detect such bots on their website because claiming a faucet every hour is unreal for usual users. I mean that it should be suspicious activity even if a couple of dozen accounts claim 100 RP every hour throughout the day.
Well, I don't know if more than one person is allowed to operate a same account. If so, the excuse of having a brother or relative sharing accounts and consequently farming the faucet all day long because they can't create one for themselves due to the IP restriction could be used. But as many users were alredy blocked there must be another security measures to prevent such abuses from happening.
Glad that freebitco.in manages the situation very well. However, I feel sorry for another faucets which have been constantly drained and ended abruptly because of cheaters.
Back in the day, I remember this was a huge huge problem here, people were doing many multiple accounting deals and they were also getting tons of tickets themselves as well by the way, because when you claim the free faucet you get free ticket too, and people who affiliated you gets many things too, and you got reward points too. Combine everything everyone gets and give that to basically just one person overall? That person could make some big money from doing it.
However the thing is, if you ever try that, freebitco.in will catch you and you will not be able to withdraw money and all the manhours and work that you put into this will be gone to zero and that is the punishment basically, they spend weeks building something so big and then suddenly they get paid zero for it, so all that weeks of big work non-stop ends up not getting them any money at all, that is a good enough punishment if you ask me.