Long story short, Mailchimp just dinged me for trying to send a newsletter to suspect addresses and stopped the newsletter from going out to all new subscribers added since a specific date in the second half of December.
I looked at the addresses they flagged and found something suspicious. In late December, I had a huge number of baskets created by a Google bot that was checking pricing for Merchant Center. (At least that's my assumption based on articles I have read about this...) There were about 20 different email addresses on these baskets that were variants of a person's first and last name with a number appended to the end and @gmail.com. None of these baskets resulted in a sale. They were all abandoned.
These addresses were in the Mailchimp report and, I believe, were what caused Mailchimp to flag my new newsletter subscribers. Almost all other new subscribers were clearly valid.
One of two things happened. Either the bot created baskets AND found my newsletter signup page and used the same addresses to complete those fields. Or the Mailchimp module pushed up data off the baskets before the orders were finalized. (I do not use Mailchimp for abandoned cart emails.)
Can anyone clarify when during the checkout process the module syncs data up to Mailchimp?
I looked at the addresses they flagged and found something suspicious. In late December, I had a huge number of baskets created by a Google bot that was checking pricing for Merchant Center. (At least that's my assumption based on articles I have read about this...) There were about 20 different email addresses on these baskets that were variants of a person's first and last name with a number appended to the end and @gmail.com. None of these baskets resulted in a sale. They were all abandoned.
These addresses were in the Mailchimp report and, I believe, were what caused Mailchimp to flag my new newsletter subscribers. Almost all other new subscribers were clearly valid.
One of two things happened. Either the bot created baskets AND found my newsletter signup page and used the same addresses to complete those fields. Or the Mailchimp module pushed up data off the baskets before the orders were finalized. (I do not use Mailchimp for abandoned cart emails.)
Can anyone clarify when during the checkout process the module syncs data up to Mailchimp?
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