Spam Blog Followers Via Email

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  lesleymusings · Member · May 28, 2018 at 11:27 am

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  I keep getting emails that say a new person is now following my blog via email. It is spam. I have no new email followers. It looks like it comes from you, but it must be bogus. This has been happening for several weeks now. Never happened before. I pasted it below. It comes in your blue box and looks official.

  (email visible only to moderators and staff) is now following lesleymusings

  (email visible only to moderators and staff) just started following you at http://lesleymusings.wordpress.com. They will receive an email every time you publish a post. Congratulations.

  Want less email? Modify your Discussion Settings.

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  staartmees · Member · May 28, 2018 at 12:02 pm

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  If those so called followers have an @outlook.com email, those are spammers. They are removed by Staff. This is a known problem and staff is working on a solution.
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/weird-followers/

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  lesleymusings · Member · May 28, 2018 at 12:15 pm

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  Thank you. I will ignore them.