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  antarcticarctic · Member · May 8, 2018 at 7:12 pm

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  I’ve been getting a ton of @outlook.com followers recently – I never had any before about 1/1/2018 and now I’m getting 3-4 a day with suspicious names. Is there any way to block these or draw WordPress’ attention to a potential spam threat?

  I did see several posts about this problem from years ago, but they said WordPress looked into it and it stopped.

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

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  akumarjain · Staff · May 8, 2018 at 7:21 pm

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  You are not alone and there is nothing to worry about. Your site and account are safe.

  Few other WordPress.com blogs are hit by these spam followers. WordPress.com team is aware of the problem and removing these automatically from user sites. You can see a similar discussion and staff reply here – https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/more-weird-likesfollows

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  kavipoetry · Member · May 9, 2018 at 8:42 pm

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  I get this as well..Frustrating…I want people to follow me but not these goons or bots or whatever they are!

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  jessrushton · Member · May 22, 2018 at 2:26 pm

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  I am glad I am not the only one. Thanks for the link and info

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