Don’t you hate it when people try to ruin your fun or your livelihood. I believe either someone or various people are trying to do this to my email newsletter and other newsletters on Substack. Do I have facts? Yes, I do. You may not even realize it is happening to you.
Thank you for sharing this! Another suspicious thing, Matthew: I get subscribers who have no posts of their own, no likes, no notes. and no profile -- BUT they subscribe to 500-600 substacks! Seems weird to me. I just delete them. Let me know if you have experienced that.
Thanks, Matt for making this info available. Since October 2 I've gained 11 new followers that fit this criteria. I have a small readership and was happy about this uptick in subscriptions, only to now discover it's not legit. :(
We get this sort of subscriber in Tumblr all the time. We’re told to Report them as SPAM then Block them. Works really well. We can see the waves as the people behind them try different approaches to get through. Someone explained what they’re doing and why. I can probably dig up the post if needed but I think it’s based on stuff similar to Facebook where all the interconnected tentacles allow them some sort of access to all our accounts, so I’m VERY relieved that you’re deleting them. I don’t want to leave Substack.
(I’m way behind on my reading. Australia has a lot of gaps in phone coverage and I’ve been in one for the past week. Had a wonderful time, but I have a lot of reading to do now to catch up.)
Gosh, that's so interesting - thanks, Matt! I haven't really been paying much attention - when I get a new subscriber who writes their own newsletter I always click through to have a look, but I haven't really looked too closely at actual e-mail addresses.
I've looked now, though, and I do have a few in just the format you've described! 👀 Thank you for drawing my attention to them.
Good catch, Matt. If you notice that these newsubs have 0 activity with our newsletters. Rather than send them the newsletters, it's probably best just to delete them from your dashboard. Thanks!
Thank you for sharing this! Another suspicious thing, Matthew: I get subscribers who have no posts of their own, no likes, no notes. and no profile -- BUT they subscribe to 500-600 substacks! Seems weird to me. I just delete them. Let me know if you have experienced that.
Thanks Matthew for the info. It's pretty disturbing what our world is coming to.
Thank you, Matthew! It’s nice to know someone has our backs.
Thanks for the info, Matt. I noticed that I had a lot of Yahoo email subscribers but didn't think much of it.
Good sleuthing there! :)
Thanks, Matt for making this info available. Since October 2 I've gained 11 new followers that fit this criteria. I have a small readership and was happy about this uptick in subscriptions, only to now discover it's not legit. :(
Thanks for the exposure. So irritating these kinds of things exist.
Thanks, Matthew! No recent subs have the identifiers you list but I'll be on the lookout. Good work. 👍
We get this sort of subscriber in Tumblr all the time. We’re told to Report them as SPAM then Block them. Works really well. We can see the waves as the people behind them try different approaches to get through. Someone explained what they’re doing and why. I can probably dig up the post if needed but I think it’s based on stuff similar to Facebook where all the interconnected tentacles allow them some sort of access to all our accounts, so I’m VERY relieved that you’re deleting them. I don’t want to leave Substack.
(I’m way behind on my reading. Australia has a lot of gaps in phone coverage and I’ve been in one for the past week. Had a wonderful time, but I have a lot of reading to do now to catch up.)
Thanks for the post Matthew.
Gosh, that's so interesting - thanks, Matt! I haven't really been paying much attention - when I get a new subscriber who writes their own newsletter I always click through to have a look, but I haven't really looked too closely at actual e-mail addresses.
I've looked now, though, and I do have a few in just the format you've described! 👀 Thank you for drawing my attention to them.
Good catch, Matt. If you notice that these newsubs have 0 activity with our newsletters. Rather than send them the newsletters, it's probably best just to delete them from your dashboard. Thanks!