I am getting new people following my blog all the time but when I see how many followers I have the number either stays the same or goes down. I am getting the feeling someone else is using my blog but i do not know what to do about it.

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  organichealer · Member · May 8, 2018 at 4:12 pm

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  See above.

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  idiomofexpression · Member · May 8, 2018 at 4:28 pm

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  I am also getting the same exact thing — lots of emails with @outlook.com as the ending, but they are all weird names and I don’t think they are legit. I am not sure what this is all about… Very odd!

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  idiomofexpression · Member · May 8, 2018 at 4:31 pm

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  Also, I did a bit more research and it looks like there is something going on that WordPress is aware of. Take a look at the posts here:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/weird-followers/page/2?replies=135#post-3064066

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  timethief · Member · May 10, 2018 at 3:10 am

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  Hi there,

  Wordpress.COM staff are working on a solution and that is made clear in many threads like this one https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-followers-15/

  There is no harm to your site. This is an inconvenience only and we apologize for it.

  See the How to Remove a Follower in this support document. https://en.support.wordpress.com/followers/#how-to-remove-a-follower