FRAUDULENT ACTIVITY

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  nicolelinger190541825 · Member · May 28, 2018 at 5:52 pm

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  Someone is using my name to sign up to all sorts of sites. I am getting thousands of emails signing me up to newsletters and wordpress

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  justjennifer · Member · May 29, 2018 at 4:17 am

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  Hi there, I found a similar issue in an earlier forum post which may help you as well. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/email-hacked-1/

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  fstat · Staff · May 29, 2018 at 10:26 am

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  Hi there,

  As my colleague said in the thread @justjennifer mentioned if those emails are coming from a wordpress@ address then there’s nothing we can do about it, as we have no control over the self-hosted WordPress sites.

  As @justjennifer already suggested, creating a filter in Gmail to automatically delete these emails will do the trick. Here are the official instructions:

  https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6579?hl=en

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  nicolelinger190541825 · Member · May 29, 2018 at 8:38 pm

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  Thanks so much. I’ve created the filter which has helped. I hope the volume reduces too over time…

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  fstat · Staff · May 30, 2018 at 1:23 pm

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  You’re welcome and let us know if we can help with anything else.