Sudden increase in New User Registrations
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In the past week, I have suddenly had about a dozen new users register, all from clearly phony URLs An example is:
(email visible only to moderators and staff)Anyone have a guess as to why someone would bother? Is there some benefit to someone having user rights even through they are not posting? It’s annoying me enough that I am about to close down registration, but I can’t figure out what the game is.
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Oh, I had no idea this was an issue, thought it was just a scam. I had eight more overnight! It’s weird.
But I will report it, thanks!
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I’m afraid you will have to wait until Monday to contact Staff.
Support will be closed over the weekend. We will reopen on Monday morning, March 19th.
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Actually, I think I may have solved my problem… I found several similar inquiries regarding wordpress.ORG blogs, but mine is on WordPress.COM so it didn’t seem to apply. Then I remembered that in 2007 I originally set my blog up as a .ORG one before discovering that the .COM set-up worked better for me. Dug into my website and sure enough, that original one was still there! So I have deleted it and hopefully that will be the end of that.
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