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  webdesignfirststop · Member · Dec 11, 2016 at 12:20 am

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  Hi there,

  We have received an email from ‘(email visible only to moderators and staff)’ as follows:

  ATT: Tippa Naphtali
  mashhub.org
  Response Requested By
  11 – Dec. – 2016

  PART I: REVIEW NOTICE

  Attn: Tippa Naphtali
  As a courtesy to domain name holders, we are sending you this notification for your business Domain name search engine registration. This letter is to inform you that it’s time to send in your registration.
  Failure to complete your Domain name search engine registration by the expiration date may result in cancellation of this offer making it difficult for your customers to locate you on the web.
  Privatization allows the consumer a choice when registering. Search engine registration includes domain name search engine submission. Do not discard, this notice is not an invoice it is a courtesy reminder to register your domain name search engine listing so your customers can locate you on the web.
  This Notice for: mashhub.org will expire at 11:59PM EST, 11 – Dec. – 2016 Act now!

  Select Package:
  click here

  Payment by Credit/Debit Card

  Select the term using the link above by 11 – Dec. – 2016
  http://mashhub.org

  We have used WordPress long enough to know that you never send emails of this nature, but just thought we should check-in with you :-)

  Regards,
  Tippa

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

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  kokkieh · Staff · Dec 12, 2016 at 1:46 pm

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  Hi there,

  WordPress.com emails will always come from an @wordpress.com email address. That email is not from us.

  I see you bought a domain from us in August, but you didn’t buy private registration. The contact details for all domain owners at all registrars are kept in a database called the Whois database. This is a public database, meaning the contact details are visible to anyone who knows how to look it up. Private registration is a service where we pay the registrar so they hide that contact details from being publicly visible.

  There are many scammers out there who looks up recently registered domains and then email, or even paper-mail domain owners, claiming that you need to register their domain on search engines at a fee before the domains can be found in search results, or claiming that the domain will expire or be suspended if you don’t pay an additional fee. All those emails are scams, and you can ignore them, spam them, or even report them as phishing if you use an email provider that has that option.

  To prevent more people like this from accessing your info you can still enable private registration from My Site ->Domains if you want.

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  webdesignfirststop · Member · Dec 15, 2016 at 12:24 am

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  Many thanks for your responses.