hundreds of emails
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I used wordpress 7 years ago but not since. Today i received 6000+ emails about registering to various sites, mostly wordpress related. What has happened? Most emails have ‘pharoah619586’, as the reference/ID? which isnt an ID I know but is similar. Ive just logged in after guessing an ID and resetting a password.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
At what email address are you receiving these emails? Our system has not sent any emails to the Hotmail address associated with this account in the past month, except for the password reset email and a confirmation email when you created this forum thread 12 hours ago.
Also, are the emails coming from the same FROM address, or from different ones? Any email that is generated by our system will come from a @wordpress.com address. If that’s not the domain showing in the email address, the emails aren’t coming from us.
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They are mostly similar to that pasted below. This one was from (email visible only to moderators and staff). they are different companies but mostly use wordpress before the @. I understand it isn’t sent by yourselves, but it’s odd it uses your name and that pharoah619568 is partly the wordpress login.
Mon 20/03/2017 07:21
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(email visible only to moderators and staff)
Username: pharoah619586To set your password, visit the following address:
<http://www.homecircles.com/wp-login.php?action=rp&key=MXFMuBeSG67bGFllotnN&login=pharoah619586>
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That appears before the @ is irrelevant. You can now go onto Gmail or Yahoo or Hotmail and register (email visible only to moderators and staff), or if you own your own domain you can create a wordpress@ address, without having anything to do with us at all. The person sending out the emails is the one who owns the domain that appears after @.
So those emails are not being sent by us and we have no control over them whatsoever.
The domain homecircles.com is also not a WordPress.com site, and has no connection with us at all. So there is nothing we can do in this case.
It looks like that domain is registered with Network Solutions, so you can try contacting them and tell them this domain is being abused to send out spam. If that is against their terms, they’ll be able to take action against the domain owner.
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I have looked at the site homecircles and it does appear to be part of wordpress. I looked at others and they also seem to be associated to some extent.
Below is copied from the homecircles.com site.
Copyright 2012 Avada | All Rights Reserved | Powered by WordPress | Theme Fusion
One was not powered by wordpress but did have mention of blog on wordpress also. isnt it odd that the emails are from thousands of different sites and wordpress is a common factor? -
http://formacionprofesionalsanitaria.com/
https://atelier-knits.com/2 more since typing last reply powered by wordpress
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2 more since typing last reply powered by wordpress
That sites aren’t hosted by WordPress.com
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The “powered by WordPress” means the site are using the self-hosted WordPress software, but they are not on our servers and have no connection to the WordPress.com platform.
The WordPress software is free and available for anyone to use – it’s used on about 27% of all sites on the internet at this point. Only a small number of those sites are here on WordPress.com. Others are with providers like Network Solutions, or Bluehost or GoDaddy or NameCheap. We have no control over those sites not hosted with us, even though they still use WordPress.
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