I have identified and deleted at least 20 user requests so far. It is quite amazing IMO how much spamming is out there. I just implemented so basic attempts at blocking some of this with some plugins. See how well this goes .. I think .. that I need to have a form where someone who wants to Subscribe to the website needs to fill out a “Why I want to be a Subscriber” .. at least seems reasonable to me.
Ha. I was going to test the User Registration and realized I had no link to do that … meaning every one of the ones I have received had to be a bot that is adding the login link to the URL