Fraudulent Site Creations

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    kmforre4 · Member ·

    Someone appears to have been using my email address to try and create wordpress sites under my account. Is there any way to terminate those? I am receiving a lot of emails with usernames asking me to set my password and I’m not sure what to do.

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

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    vvaibhavwagh · Member ·

    Hi kmforre4,

    Can you tell us if you have an account with WordPress.com with the same email address with which you are facing the issue?

    If yes and you are getting emails regarding your WordPress.com account, then I think that your email address(linked with the WordPress.com) details have been compromised.
    I would suggest you to change the password of your email address and then once it is successfully changed, change the password of your WordPress.com account
    connected to same email address, once you do these two steps you can check if you still face those issues.
    You can change your WordPress.com password from here:
    https://wordpress.com/me/security

    If you have lost your password you can reset it from here:

    Change or Reset Your Password

    Please let us know if you still face any issues

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    cbournel · Member ·

    This is an urgent request: This site was created on WordPress and is offering gift cards to people to redeem at our business, but this site is not our company. HOW CAN WE REPORT AND GET THIS SITE TAKEN DOWN?
    [redacted by mod]

    The message below came to our email info box but it’s fraud. We don’t sell gift cards online and we are [redacted by mod]

    Dear [redacted by mod],

    [redacted by mod] visited our web site and purchased an e-Gift Certificate for you in the amount of $100.00, redeemable in the Cinnabar Winery Online Store.
    [redacted by mod] also included the following personalized message:
    Happy Birthday! Enjoy!

    Your e-Gift Certificate code is [redacted by mod]

    To redeem:
    Visit Cinnabar Winery, enter our Online Store, click “Redeem Gift Certificate”, and enter your code [redacted by mod]
    OR
    Click here to enter our Online Store and activate your e-Gift Certificate simultaneously.

    Note: Your e-Gift Certificate expires on 10/8/2062. Please do not delete this e-mail until your e-Gift Certificate has been redeemed or has expired!
    Cinnabar Winery
    [contact info redacted by mod]
    (email visible only to moderators and staff)

    The Cinnabar Winery Online Store is powered by the Nexternal eCommerce Platform – sell more online than ever before.

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    @cbournel, please do not hijack old threads created by other users with posts on a completely unrelated matter.

    http://www.cinnabarwine.com is not hosted on WordPress.com so we have no control over that site whatsoever. That site was built using the open source WordPress software that anyone can download from the WordPress.org website and install with any hosting provider, or even on a private server.

    To get that site taken offline you’ll need to contact their hosting provider or their ISP, in the case of a private server.

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