Sudden increase in dubious followers

ellistyd · Member · Jul 10, 2013 at 1:52 pm
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Over the past week and a half my follower count has gone from the 50 or so accumulated over 3 years to 130 with 70 or so over the last week and a half.
Given the number of views my blog gets this is a very high percentage of visitors clicking follow.
Most have no blogs. Many are not in English.
What is going on?
The most recent was a gemmamillenson whose Gravatar is a picture of Gemma Atkinson – clearly less than legitimate.

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supernu · Member · Jul 10, 2013 at 2:07 pm
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Yes, they are spam followers, we all get them.
hnsaifi · Member · Jul 10, 2013 at 2:10 pm
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Unfortunately you can not stop people from following your blog.
You can blacklist their comments. (You can’t stop them from liking).
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-blacklist

If you think any of your follower is not leg and following you just for spamming you can report his blog to be spam.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/report-blogs/
Staff will review your report and will take necessary actions.
ellistyd · Member · Jul 10, 2013 at 8:46 pm
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I kinda figured they were spam. The sudden surge seemed a bit peculiar. What do they hope to gain?
peterpanch · Member · Jul 10, 2013 at 10:17 pm
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Hello ..

i got the same situation with spam followers in short time (6 ours) from same domain “@xlxe.pl”

It seems to me that no one is able to help
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/e-mail-follower-subscription-spammails-from-xlxepl?replies=2#post-1340736

Greez, Peter
hnsaifi · Member · Jul 11, 2013 at 9:41 am
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What do they hope to gain?

They are just attention seekers who follow blogs especially the newbies intend to get attention. You just need to ignore them and their aim will just lost.

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