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Is lots of email sign ups from one country spam?

I've had lots of email sign ups from a random country recently - any chance this is spam or is it legit? Just seems weird to get 50-100 new email signups all from one country that I've never attracted much interest from. 

I have started ranking for some new keywords so maybe it's related to that

Pete Codes
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Uwe Dreiss
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Last year, at InvoiceBerry, we randomly started receiving dozens of signups from Sri Lanka. The next day again, and again. Initially I thought it was spam, but they seemed to use the tool. So I reached out to a few people and one of the new signups shared a video with me. Apparently a Sri Lankan influencer mentioned InvoiceBerry in his TikTok video.

So yeah, maybe reach out to some of those sig ups that seem active and ask.

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Lis D
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@lis

This is great advice! I've seen a few situations now too with an influencer sending a mass amount of engagement from a specific niche or region.

Also, you probably already have but check the email addresses - if they all follow a similar pattern it's probably spam. And timings too - do they come through in batches or are they very evenly spaces (i.e. every 5 minutes), can be a spam indicator of automation (but you probably already are on top of that).

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Pete Codes
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I found it was a youtuber who mentioned me! Good tip

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