is this for real?

New Substack subscriber!

I'm trying to check into this, but if it's real, it's my first-ever famous subscriber on Substack. I somehow doubt it's real, though. The actor shown below was a major guest star on "White Collar," and he had a small part in the latest Mission: Impossible films. According to his Substack profile, he's made no posts of his own, which is very suspicious. Also: Metaphysically speaking, good things like famous people randomly subscribing to me don't happen to people like me. A kick in the head is more likely.

(And I had no idea he was Scottish. He's played people with a Cockney accent, people with a New Yawk accent, and everyone in between.)

Substack is full of bots, like everywhere else, so pardon my hermeneutic of suspicion.

ADDENDUM: How to Spot a Bot on Substack (selection below edited).

It will start with a simple “hello.” The name will have numbers as it is A.I. generated. The bot will have “reads” but no post. The bot will go after the opposite sex and be very flirty (you're not that good-looking). The bot will use an A.I.-generated image for the profile, or it will be scraped off other social media.

Yeah, all of the above fits "Ross McCall." Maybe I should just block this thing. I probably have some bots subscribing to me already, but they've been quiescent. Sigh... I knew this was too good to be true.

UPDATE: This bot isn't even showing up as a new subscriber on my list, so there's nothing to block, delete, or report. Yet.