Title: Subscribers query
Last modified: July 23, 2017

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# Subscribers query

 *  Resolved [Charlie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charliemariephoto/)
 * (@charliemariephoto)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscribers-query/)
 * Hi!
    I don’t want to jinx myself, but I’ve logged into my site today (I haven’t
   worked on it in a week or two) and was surprised to see I have accumulated 36
   subscribers! Thing is, I’m only linking my website through my Creative Market
   profile, so I wasn’t expecting any subscribers at this stage, and I have a niggling
   feeling some of them may be spam.
 * Is there a way to tell? Probably not I know, but if just felt unlikely it was
   genuine! I wasn’t sure what I needed the IP address for either?
 * Thanks 🙂

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 *  Plugin Author [NiteoThemes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niteo/)
 * (@niteo)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscribers-query/#post-9344187)
 * Hello, that is really tough question as there is no way telling if the email 
   address is authentic or it is a spam. You can always export subscriber list (
   or check on a CMP Subscribers page if you have version > 1.8.0 – there should
   be IP address as well which might help), and check if the email address seems
   legitimate.
 * Also, if you are using our CMP subscriber form, it is protected by honeypot method
   against spammers, and I can tell it works quite well, although it`s not bulletproof
   of course.
 * Alex
 *  Thread Starter [Charlie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charliemariephoto/)
 * (@charliemariephoto)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscribers-query/#post-9345332)
 * Hi Alex,
 * Thanks for your reply, I guess I just felt if they were genuine they’d be more
   business addresses, but a lot of them look slightly spammy, or are just personal
   gmail addresses.
 * I am using your CMP plugin, so I presume I am using your CMP subscriber form?
   My site is [http://www.tideandtree.com](http://www.tideandtree.com) if you can
   check? It would be great if it had one of those capture things to make sure it’s
   a human subscriber.
 * Can I ask how the IP address would help me differentiate? I am a bit behind the
   times with what it all means!
 * Thanks
    Charlie
 *  Plugin Author [NiteoThemes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niteo/)
 * (@niteo)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscribers-query/#post-9345531)
 * Hi Charlie, captures are not usually used on subscriber forms as visitors do 
   not want to be bothered by these type of things anymore, from my experience subscriber`
   s number goes down to zero when captcha is used.
 * We are using hidden fields on subscriber forms which will catch very high number
   of spam robots. Gmail email address are usually real people 🙂
 * If you have IP address, you could use some online tool like [http://www.dnsbl.info/](http://www.dnsbl.info/)
   to check if it is a recorded spam IP address or not.
 * Alex
 *  Thread Starter [Charlie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charliemariephoto/)
 * (@charliemariephoto)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscribers-query/#post-9349896)
 * That’s great thanks 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [NiteoThemes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/niteo/)
 * (@niteo)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subscribers-query/#post-9349976)
 * No problem 🙂
 * Alex

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