[kwlug-disc] OT: wordpress.com email follower spam

[Raymond Chen]

Could be robots or trolls. Create enough interactions with real people to
avoid detection algorithm, I think.

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 2:42 PM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> I help administrate a blog on wordpress.com . Over the past few weeks
> I have been seeing a lot of follows by (very likely bogus) outlook.com
> addresses:
>
> "sautermssonyad at outlook.com just followed (blog name)"
>
> Since these are probably spammers I should not take this cavalierly.
> But I am not sure I understand the business model here. What can
> spammers do once they have followed a blog? Following a blog does not
> influence their ability (or not) to leave comments.
>
> - Paul
>
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