Possible Scam

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  kfernandez2013 · Member · Mar 26, 2018 at 5:27 am

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  Why am I being invited to join a non-existent page? This seems like a SCAM!!!

  ‘ You’ve been invited to follow higateschool!

  hayfords has invited you to follow higateschool.

  You can accept the invitation by clicking below:

  Accept Invitation

  This message was sent by a WordPress.com user who entered your email address or username to invite you. You can unsubscribe if you’d prefer not to receive invitation emails in future. Please do not reply to this message; it was sent from an unmonitored email address. For help with WordPress.com, please visit WordPress.com Support

  Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser:
  [redacted]
  ‘

  Here’s the URL for the page:https://higateschool.wordpress.com/about/
  This is the content:

  Home
  About
  About
  This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many pages like this one or sub-pages as you like and manage all of your content inside of WordPress.

  Share this:

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

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  justjennifer · Member · Mar 26, 2018 at 5:35 am

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  Hi there, you’re posting in a public forum so I’ve redacted the link to accept the follow invite from your above post. If you don’t wish to follow that site, you can ignore the email you received.

  Regardless I’ve gone ahead and tagged this for Staff attention to see if there is an issue with that site.

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  kfernandez2013 · Member · Mar 26, 2018 at 5:48 am

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  Thank you!

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  kfernandez2013 · Member · Mar 26, 2018 at 5:49 am

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  Thank you!

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  kfernandez2013 · Member · Mar 26, 2018 at 5:49 am

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  Thank you!

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  gemmacevans · Member · Mar 26, 2018 at 8:04 am

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  Hi kfernandez2013,

  The email you received was sent from our system. As @justjennier mentioned, the email can be ignored if you do not wish to follow the site.

  @justjennifer — I can’t see any issues with the site itself but I’ll run this past our developers.

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  justjennifer · Member · Mar 26, 2018 at 9:15 am

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  Thanks @gemmacevans

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  gemmacevans · Member · Mar 27, 2018 at 8:39 am

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  No problem!

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  drcsr180020418 · Member · Apr 2, 2018 at 2:06 pm

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  Hope it’s ok to piggyback here…I’ve had my business blog on wp for several years. Now, all of a sudden within the past two weeks I am getting two of these same type of invitations to non-existent blogs every single day. My concern is that even though these are being sent through your system, it may be for nefarious reasons. If I didn’t get them every day, and if it never happened until recently…and more importantly, if the blogs were actual blogs…it wouldn’t be curious. But for none of these sites to have content? Why? And why all of a sudden now?

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · Apr 2, 2018 at 2:25 pm

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  drcsr180020418 – no worries and thanks for getting in touch.

  Are these coming from different sites, or is it always the same one? Can you share the blog address(es)?

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  drcsr180020418 · Member · Apr 2, 2018 at 4:14 pm

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  I don’t have last weeks anymore…today’s picks that have come in so far are /signingagenttraining.wordpress.com
  Invited from
  magezero

  (Remove the / at the beginning. My fat fingers on my iPhone won’t let me!)

  Surpringly, this one has a post. But it’s a spam looking word salad one from a few years ago.

  Also today….

  https://aspie55.wordpress.com/

  The invitation for that one came from a
  maruqumi

  Again, it seems innocent enough IF I had gotten these periodically over the last five or so years. But these are the first and they have been almost every day starting last week. All zero content blogs, except for word salad up there and one more that I forgot from last Thursday….I’ll have to look in deleted emails later for the rest.

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · Apr 2, 2018 at 8:43 pm

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  Thanks for getting back to me. I’ve had a look at the initial 2 you’ve provided. Once I hear back with the others I am going to talk with our Security team.