blocked ip addresses + block user tool #8341
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Description
in between phone calls, i play a game of whack a mole with scammers who keep opening up gitcoin grants with falsified information. they are trying to leverage our platform and brand to raise money, and falsifying grants information in order to do so.
some of the fake grants
https://gitcoin.co/grants/1962/filecoin-is-an-open-source-cloud-storage-marketpl
https://gitcoin.co/grants/1944/consensus-of-the-ethereum-20-protocol
https://gitcoin.co/grants/1941/gitcoin-grants-multisig-donate-round-9
https://gitcoin.co/grants/1940/gitcoin-grants-official-matching-pool-fund
#8305 will help a lot too (thanks graham!), but this PR will reduce the cycle time for blocking these users via whack a mole by
Refers/Fixes
https://gitcoin.co/_administrationgrants/grant/ <=== fake grants
Testing
tested locally (both ip blocking + blocking user)