Hello everyone,
The devs believe the root issue has been resolved as far as identifying and filtering the bot traffic. As of now, all sign-up landing pages should be active again. The devs are also identifying affected accounts, and are working to get these contacts removed, in case the account users hadn't noticed the fake sign-ups yet. We're leaving the service request open to continue tracking for affected accounts, while the devs identify and remove the fake sign-ups from them.
If you're still seeing these bot sign-ups - typically denoted as having "fortnite" or some variation of a particular slur in the name - regardless of whether the email address is a real one or not, it's advised that you unsubscribe and delete these contacts from your account. From previous experience regarding situations like this, I'd personally advise that if you've turned on Confirm Opt-In for your account, to at least temporarily maintain that through the weekend.
From my previous response:
if you've been affected by these sign-ups, you can:
Unsubscribe the bot contacts. You can do this either individually, or en masse by exporting them and then re-importing them as a file of unsubscribes.
Turn on Confirmed Opt-In momentarily so that these contacts do not get immediately added as active contacts.
We'll continue to monitor incoming traffic regarding this issue, and tracking the service request to accounts reporting about it while the request remains open. Posts will be merged into this thread if made outside of it, so we can have all Community posts on this particular topic in one area. Once we've received confirmation from the devs that the issue is considered resolved, we'll update this thread.
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