Title: Subscribers
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Subscribers

 *  [baweber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/baweber/)
 * (@baweber)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscribers-20/)
 * In the last 24 hours I have had over 60 subscribers added to my site. None of
   them seem to be real people – more like made up names with a totally different
   email address than the user name. What’s going on? I was using Version 3.9xx 
   until this morning, but upgraded to 4.2.2. Since then there have been about 10
   more fake subscribers.

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 *  [Lalit Nagrath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laliz/)
 * (@laliz)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscribers-20/#post-6139839)
 * Seem like Spam Bots have discovered your website. keep track of all pending posts.
   they do try to create some things of that sort too.
 *  [Milad Nasri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miladnasri/)
 * (@miladnasri)
 * [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscribers-20/#post-6139846)
 * Use both of the following plugins and everything will be fine:
    - Install wm-simple-captcha plugin to add a simple capcha to your registration
      forms to prevent spam subscriptions and registrations.
    - Install Akismet plugin to monitor the comments

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## Tags

 * [hacked](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hacked/)
 * [subscribers](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/subscribers/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Milad Nasri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miladnasri/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscribers-20/#post-6139846)
 * Status: not resolved

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