Redux: Bogus Followers with Outlook Email Accounts
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arbitrarydustbunnies – Yes, we are aware and working on this. If they aren’t already, please mark these as spam. Or, report the usernames here and I can do it.
The privacy options are listed in this guide: https://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
Write back to me here if you have any questions about those.
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Thanks, suethomas1. Let me know if you have any trouble with that. Marking them as Spam will help our filters and security systems learn.
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Liz, these aren’t emails about a comment, they’re emails telling me I have a new follower with an Outlook email address, but when I go to my site to check them out, they’ve disappeared. One email a day at least for at least two weeks, very irritating and concerning.
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I am having the same issue as Mariebaca.
I get an automated email from WordPress saying I have a new follower. The follower’s email is always from Outlook. When I go to see them listed on my followers list they are not there.
My complaint is that I get daily emails from WordPress telling me I have a new follower that isn’t actually there.
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The Outlook email followers are being removed as spam followers. This is why you aren’t finding them through your account dashboard. This is expected behavior.
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lizkarkoski,
What evidence can users receive to know that WordPress is working to resolve this problem? I ask because these bogus Outlook email followers first came to me back in January 2018, and this is May 2018. I have read posts in another thread that said that WordPress is working to resolve this. Yet it persists.
Gabriel
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