Any reason to be concerned by a wave of “zombie” blog signups?

Sometimes people who run these bots or do this manual are paid for the amount of accounts they create. So the more accounts they create the more rewards they get.

Only after such a run the list goes to the original client who then uses the list of accounts to perform (comment) spam runs or whatever he thinks is needed.

So this can be a reason why you first get a load of accounts created and then later by someone else other actions.

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