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  jrbjork · Member · Jan 14, 2018 at 6:40 pm

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  Yesterday, 2018-01-13 I got two new followers, (email visible only to moderators and staff) and (email visible only to moderators and staff). Today (email visible only to moderators and staff) followed me. These mail addresses look suspect in my eyes. Do you have any clue what they are. Is it some sort of spam?

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

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  ismaeliea · Member · Jan 14, 2018 at 6:51 pm

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  Hi there!

  It is likely spam. You may wany to contact Akismet, and see what they say since they enable spam protection.

  I’ll also tag this as Modlook in case staff has anything to say.

  Thanks!
  Alisson

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  ismaeliea · Member · Jan 14, 2018 at 6:52 pm

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  Sorry for the typo for “wany” — I meant “want”.

  Thanks!
  Alisson

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  justjennifer · Member · Jan 14, 2018 at 8:10 pm

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  Hi there, you’ll also want to see the main thread about suspicious outlook followers with a Staff reply here: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/weird-followers?replies=6

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jan 15, 2018 at 6:11 am

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  Hi there,

  Thanks for the report. Please see my reply on the thread @justjennifer linked to for more info on this. We’ll update that thread once we have more information on this, so please subscribe there so you’ll be notified of further replies.

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  justjennifer · Member · Jan 15, 2018 at 7:32 am

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  And here’s the direct link to @kokkieh’s detailed response https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/weird-followers/page/2?replies=6#post-3064066 Thank you @kokkieh. :)

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jan 15, 2018 at 7:50 am

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  Always a pleasure :)

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  justjennifer · Member · Jan 18, 2018 at 4:13 pm

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  Just coming back to add that 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 this topic, you can subscribe to that thread by clicking on the Subscribe to Topic link in the sidebar of that thread. Thanks.