spam on My Dashboard?

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  way2much · Member · Sep 11, 2006 at 10:42 pm

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  Hi, I sent 3 contact support emails but I do not know if they went through as I am not
  trusting my dashboard or my tool bar at this point. My problem is that I have a list of
  10 wordpress.com sites listing under My Dashboard and New Post. They are NOT mine. They all
  seem to relate to Rhode Island and seems spam-like. Anyone else having this problem or
  am I the only one. I have not heard back from customer support so I am concerned. Any details
  you can supply would be great.
  Thanks
  (If need be I was able to copy the sites but won’t give them the satisfaction of listing
  them here.)

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  engtech · Member · Sep 12, 2006 at 1:00 am

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  That’s really weird. I’ve never seen the before. Wait to hear feedback.

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  engtech · Member · Sep 12, 2006 at 1:01 am

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  Did you ever get any emails inviting you to be a member/admin of the spam blogs? If someone invites you to join a blog it will show up on your dashboard.

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 12, 2006 at 1:06 am

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  You can also email support@wordpress.com, if you want to steer clear of WordPress-hosted tools entirely.

  I vaguely remember something like this from back maybe three months ago, but can’t find it anywhere. The fellow signed in and was taken to the dashboard for a completely different blog, one he didn’t like and hadn’t seen before.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 12, 2006 at 4:40 am

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  @rain
  What I’m getting recently is spam masquerading as comments on very old blog posts that I did not close the comments on. But I remember the post rain is referring to. I couldn’t find the thread in the search box so maybe it was one of those cases of someone going off topic and the thread not being titled and tagged for off-topic retrieval. I’m also sure it took intervention by sysadmin to figure it out and put an end to it.

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  way2much · Member · Sep 13, 2006 at 4:06 pm

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  Engtech, Raincoaster and Timethief,
  I thank you all for your feedback.
  I never answered anyone’s invitation.
  I also get spam as comments on old posts. Akismet usually catches it and I am ok.
  Recently – same day as my other problem, I recieved 3 emails (spam comments) to my
  personal address. But when I logged onto WordPress there were no indications of these
  comments – strange.
  Barry from Tech support said he was looking into it and it is resolved for me. But I was
  wondering if anyone else had similar problems – it seems like the answer is no.
  Thanks again though for you help.