Any Tips on Dealing with Spam Accounts Following My Account?

[Sea-Change]

In the past two days, I've received three "Follow" notifications from accounts that sell multiple blank items with misleading tags. One account apparently followed me, unfollowed me, then refollowed me. This seems unusual and disconcerting, but I'm not aware of a Block or Remove button for followers.

I've reached out to Zazzle support on both the issue of the "blank" products and on handling the sudden barrage of spam-selling followers, but has anyone has dealt with this before? Or is anyone else suddenly being followed by similar accounts, all in the same region?  I couldn't find any general guidelines on the "followers" scenario. Thank so much!

[LMGildersleeve]

Ugh, those spammers from that certain country have permeated this site. 🙁 I don't think there is any way to block or hide a follower. 

In reality, do customers ever even look at our Followers page? My gut feeling is they probably don't get that far in our stores. Z said a long time ago that the vast majority of customers who come into Z either find us via links outside or from the MP. The customers perhaps never even look at our store fronts or categories.

I don't know for sure of course, I have no inside information. However, when I was active with Google Analytics I never, ever saw any customers hitting any page other than product pages. It was so rare I saw a hit on my "Home" page of a store. Unless you are actively sending the customer to those store pages, I bet they never see them.

[Cat]

Just report a few of their designs so Zazzle can find & delete them.

[tamirazdesigns]

Agree!  Would like the ability to block followers we don't feel comfortable with.  I, too, recently got another follower from that same country region with all spam in their store.  Same thing as some others from that country (maybe same people with different stores?) looking via design tool it looks crazy all their 10 or 13 layers on ONE design (and with ai or jpg in image name) BUT with only the top image layer showing filling the whole design area, or very tiny odd images with ONLY one tiny image showing on item BUT the design tool has like 13 ai jpg images for that item... big mess.  I've never had sales from that country or region.  Why are spam stores like this following designers now? 

Not as easy as saying click to report spam designs, even emailing links does nothing.  All links sent via one email in January of store items in each store with nothing but all white or black solid colors on every item, from that same country region are still active store accounts, some Bronze no less!  And saw a different spam store yesterday (from that same country) and had Silver level with nothing but majority of blank items but all solid colors, with some designs thrown in on some items.   Gaming the system.  This is not right or fair.   How is that still happening?