My account got botted with a ton of followers from another person

Hi Bill D,

My name is Mauro, am happy to help.

Unfortunately this can't be controlled because anyone can follow your account. Please check your privacy settings this can help you :
https://account.xbox.com/Settings

Thanks

I had another person talk about a similar issue yesterday, have you possibly accepted any chats from the bot accounts

The bots I've seen fall into 2 categories: -

1. They follow you and then message you, usually with links to dodgy sites. I haven't had a message from a bot in forever, so maybe MS have found a way of stamping these out (for now).

2. They follow you and that's it. The bot creator is hoping that you will follow them back, so eventually they can build up an account with a ton of followers, presumably to sell it.

There's no way to be 100% certain that an account is a bot, but usually a bot will have close to zero achievements/game activity. They will often also have a high follower count, but be following few people.

It could be real people following you of course. They might have encountered you in game, used the "recently played with" list, or looked at the "recommended friends" list, cos friends of friends appear in that list.

If you're sure that a follower is a bot, you can always block them, which removes them as your follower and also blocks them from following you again, sending you messages etc.

Honestly not sure how many if any of those followers are bots because i have been reporting them but literally [mod removed], another bot, has followed me again for at least the second time 11 minutes ago. I reported and blocked that person yesterday

Hi NeRdSiLeNcEr085!

We cannot really control that from happening because anyone can follow us. If someone botted you followers it shouldn't be your fault. So long as you didn't violate any of the Xbox Community Standards here https://www.xbox.com/legal/community-standards you're account should be good.