Will Microsoft ban my account after someone sent thousands of bots to follow my account?

Hi Y96X. Sorry to hear about what happened.

If you have already secured your account, there's nothing to worry about it. It's not like they have access to your account when adding followers of bots to your account. We cannot really prevent someone from following our profile. I believe that the Enforcement team takes a lot into consideration before giving an enforcement action to an account. Of course they have to see every angle of the incident and look for evidence to verify every details. So long as you didn't do anything against the Xbox Community Standards, it should be fine.

The enforcement team cannot remove the followers, but they can ban each account, but you have to report them first. Also, it doesn't matter how many reports that are sent about your profile. If you have done nothing wrong, then you will not get suspended or banned.

Hi Benjamin4326 my name is Belle. I'd love to help!

If you didn't do something against Microsoft Services Agreement and the Xbox community standards, there's nothing you need to worry about and it would be unlikely for you to get banned as it's not your intention to do so.

You might want to consider configuring your privacy settings https://account.xbox.com/Settings to limit the followers.

For your reference, you can check Microsoft Services Agreement: https://www.microsoft.com/servicesagreement

And Xbox Community Standards for Xbox:

https://www.xbox.com/legal/community-standards

No they are not actual Developers. I have random people on my friends list that has "Dev" or "Developer" along with another word or numbers in their Gamertag. They are likely bots. There is a big problem with tens of thousands of bots being created for
websites you can go to, to "buy followers". People go to these sites and pay money to people to buy followers, and it is these bots that they "buy" to follow them. Many bots are made just to follow people for a follower number, through these websites. It's
either that or someone just doing something strange and creating multiple accounts, maybe for game boosting etc.

You need to get in touch with xbox immediately! If not they can do something to get you banned permanenty! This happened to me on the 6th...my case is still being reviewed after i sent screenshots showing that someone in the Netherlands accessed my account! I cant play any games or communicate with anyone and thousands of dollars spent on that account are gone until its reversed! Microsoft doesn't seem to care and i haven't seen anyone who has went through the same problem get their account back....