# Mautic SpamBots are Creating Anonymous Users

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/mautic-spambots-are-creating-anonymous-users/14339>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** community\
**Created:** [May 14, 2020, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/mautic-spambots-are-creating-anonymous-users/14339 "2020-05-14T20:40:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![renzof](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/renzof/32/1738_2.png) [@renzof](https://forum.mautic.org/u/renzof)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2020, 7:49am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/mautic-spambots-are-creating-anonymous-users/14339/3 "2020-05-16T07:49:54Z")

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Hey welcome to the community.  
If you don’t want to track the Mautic instance visits you can also restrict the IP  
As per this comment by @backseat

> [@Dashboard graphs show incorrect contact and visit numbers](https://forum.mautic.org/t/dashboard-graphs-show-incorrect-contact-and-visit-numbers/13679/7):
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> For anyone else that records false visit numbers because of website monitoring, the solution is to go to Settings, Configuration, System Settings and add the monitoring IP addresses/subnets to “List of IPs to not track contacts with (one per line)” under “Miscellaneous Settings”.

Otherwise what @ekke said

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