Comments phishing

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  judithgunn · Member · Aug 29, 2017 at 4:57 pm

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  I have received email notifications telling me I have Comments pending on an old post, but when I go to the Comments pending area on my WordPress blog, there are no comments pending. I assume these emails are phishing, is this a common problem?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Aug 30, 2017 at 8:35 pm

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  I don’t have an answer for you. Let’s ask Staff to assist you with sorting this out. I will type modlook into the sidebar tags on this thread for Staff help. How do I get a Moderator/Staff reply for my question? https://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-help-in-the-forums/#how-do-i-get-a-moderatorstaff-reply-for-my-question Subscribe to this thread so you are notified when they respond and be patient while waiting. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.

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  supernovia · Staff · Aug 30, 2017 at 11:35 pm

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  Hi @judithgunn, could you get a screenshot of the email along with its headers? We’ll take a look to see if we can figure out what’s up.

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  judithgunn · Member · Aug 31, 2017 at 8:32 am

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  Hi,

  Thanks for the responses – I do have screenshots, where do I send them?

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  supernovia · Staff · Aug 31, 2017 at 11:02 pm

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  @judithgunn please go ahead and upload them at wordpress.com/mediajudithgunn.wordpress.com/

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  judithgunn · Member · Sep 1, 2017 at 11:19 am

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  Hello I have uploaded the screenshots – phishing_1 and phishing_2 to https://wordpress.com/media/judithgunn.wordpress.com I hope they are useful.

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  supernovia · Staff · Sep 1, 2017 at 4:55 pm

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  @judithgunn okay. Those are spam comments. It looks like Akismet realized they were spam after the fact. You can still see them in the spam folder.