WordPress Help informs that outlook.com “followers” are Spammers. Help goes on to say that, if we submit the date and the alleged address this will further assist WordPress in deleting/blocking the spammers.
Futility.
Once the spammer’s address has followed the blog, all pirating potential is already established;
Once any address is blocked, the spammer hack just creates another.
WORDPRESS: PROTECT YOUR BLOGGERS’ MATERIAL. PROTECT THE SITE. GET THE FIREWALLS UP. OUR ORIGINAL MATERIAL IS VULNERABLE.
Thank you.
littlebarefeetblog.com
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I’ve had a spate of these recently. I figured it was spam. At least I’m in good company… 🙂
Michael
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Michael, the concern would be: since the server is outlook.com, would this make our material more vulnerable to piracy, or no more so than other spam hits which do not come across as “followers”?
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In truth I don’t know, Ruth. I certainly hope not. Mostly these have been new followers for me, and I’ve not responded to them. So I figure it’s a phishing exercise and if we don’t click back or what have you, they can’t accomplish all that much. But an IT expert, I am not…
Michael
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Nor I. Have been removing them in email notification, first forwarding the email to WordPress.com Help.
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