Increase in Subscribers (possibly fake)

I’m not sure what could be causing this or what I need to do about it. Over the past week I’ve all of a sudden gotten between 10 and 20 signups a day, as compared to the 1 or 2 per week I got before.

Sometimes they are confirmed, other times not. Either way, because I haven’t stepped up my marketing or anything, I am concerned that they are all fake and/or possibly designed to make me hit the upper limit that the free version will support.

Any thoughts on how to make sure these are real accounts? And what would be the purpose of these signups?

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