Strange followers

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  pa1ejo · Member · Jan 17, 2018 at 12:13 pm

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  I’m getting strange followers from the domain outlook.com, how can I stop this?

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

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  ismaeliea · Member · Jan 17, 2018 at 12:39 pm

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  Hi there!

  Lots of users have also been talking about this.

  This thread, here, has all the details from staff to why is this happening.

  If you still have questions, please reply here.

  Cheers!

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  pa1ejo · Member · Jan 17, 2018 at 1:08 pm

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  Thans for showing me the thread (great service), would an option be that you can block certain e-mail domains like *@outlook.com?

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  avydun · Staff · Jan 17, 2018 at 1:49 pm

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  Hi!

  Following up for alissonhz here.

  That’s not possible at the moment. Although, if you are uncomfortable with any of them following your site, you can remove your email followers on this page and remove all other followers on this page.

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  pa1ejo · Member · Jan 17, 2018 at 1:52 pm

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  Thanks for the suggestions, it is not a major nuisance right now, but I just noted this. WordPress may want to contact (email visible only to moderators and staff) to find out whether there is some breach somewhere.

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  bellandainparis · Member · Jan 18, 2018 at 3:30 pm

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  Hello! Just came online to figure out what these strange new Outlook followers were all about… glad to hear that I am not alone on this subject. I’ve gotten about 8 (and counting) on one of my blogs in the last couple of days. Hopefully, WP will be able to do something about them. Can’t quite figure out what on earth they have to gain…

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  justjennifer · Member · Jan 18, 2018 at 4:09 pm

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  Hello all, Staff have also advised here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/weird-followers/page/2?replies=135#post-3064066 that they will provide updates in that thread. If you would like to receive email updates on that topic, you can subscribe to that thread by clicking on the Subscribe to Topic link in the sidebar of that thread.