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Thousands of duplicate website links at "Who links the most" in Google webmasters. Any risk being duplicate website links pointing to website?

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Hi all,

As I mentioned some days back here, our duplicate website got indexed a month back. Unfortunately there are links to our original website. I noticed that thousands of links are from our duplicate website at "Links to Your Site". Will this hurts? Now we have blocked the duplicate website getting indexed. What to do to remove these links from "Who links the most"?

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