False signups coming from outlook.com addresses

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    wp47blog · Member ·

    I have received probably two per day signups coming from outlook.com email addresses beginning in about January of 2018. I didn’t think anything of it as people were signing up for my blog regularly anyway.

    Then I noticed that when I checked my ‘People’ pages for subscribers and email followers, there were only a couple of emails with ‘outlook.com’ email addresses. At that point I didn’t think anything of it, either. But I’ve begun saving the signup notices in my saved email folder and I have quite a few but as of today I only have two email followers with ‘outlook.com’ email addresses.

    Anyone have any idea what is up with that? Is someone simply changing their email address on a daily basis to avoid being discovered or is someone trying to somehow spam me?

    TIA

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    kosiew · Member ·

    hi,

    Your followers could be spam followers. The Staff are cleaning them up.
    Read more here.
    https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/email-followers-not-showing-up-in-site-stats/

    Let us know if you have more questions.

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