I’ve started receiving emails about comments on a Word Press site I may or may not have set up in the past.

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  robertssteff316 · Member · Nov 17, 2020 at 4:17 pm

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  How do I discern if these are legit emails from WordPress?

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  darciemg · Staff · Nov 17, 2020 at 4:47 pm

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  I would venture a guess that they come from an email like wordpress@ and the domain name you may have used. This is your install sending the emails to you as the site admin.

  If the emails come from an address ending in @wordpress.com, these come from WordPress.com hosting and the site is managed on these servers.

  WordPress.com and WordPress.org are a little separate, and that can be confusing.
  https://wordpress.com/support/com-vs-org/

  Either way, someone is spamming a blog post you have out there on the web. You might manage these comments or delete the post/blog. If it’s a self hosted WordPress.org site, adding a plugin for spam like Akismet may help.