Spam followers?

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  dlazyd · Member · May 27, 2018 at 12:20 am

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  I am getting a ton of followers, all from outlook.com and all with suspicious looking email names. Anything I can do?

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  catkiinson · Staff · May 27, 2018 at 8:42 am

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  Hi,

  WordPress is looking into the issue.
  You can read a forum thread of similar issues here: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/weird-followers/

  You can also look at these links to manage your followers:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/followers/

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/followers/#how-to-remove-a-follower

  Hope this helps :)

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  justjennifer · Member · May 27, 2018 at 8:53 am

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  Just noting here that WordPress.com is removing spam outlook.com followers so you don’t have to do it manually.

  In the meantime you can turn off email notifications of new followers by changing your settings here: https://wordpress.com/me/notifications Click the arrow on the right and uncheck the box next to Site follows > Email.

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  catkiinson · Staff · May 27, 2018 at 8:56 am

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  Great info! Thanks @justjennifer