Suspicious Emails
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There is a Constant Contact plug on our website that allows visitors to sign up for our newsletter. When someone signs up, they are automatically added to our Constant Contact email list. WordPress also sends a notification to our email account that a new person has signed up for our newsletter. On May 15th, we received a WordPress email notification warning us of a possible ‘spoofed’ message. However the sender seems odd:
from: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church via auth.ccsend.com
reply-to: (email visible only to moderators and staff)
to: (email visible only to moderators and staff)
date: May 15, 2020, 12:38 AM
subject: St. Paul’s Key West Epistle for May 14, 2020
mailed-by: in.constantcontact.com
signed-by: auth.ccsend.com
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: Important mainly because it was sent directly to you.that a new subscription had come in from an email account ending in ‘
On May 16th, we received another odd email with the sender ending in ‘@domstat.su’ as follows:
WordPress via fw-mail.com
Sat, May 16, 9:46 AM (5 days ago)to me
Your Constant Contact Forms plugin has captured new information.
Form title: Sign up for our newsletter
Form information:Postal code:
Last Name:
First Name:
Email: (email visible only to moderators and staff)
Starting May 20th, WordPress notification emails have been pouring in with no first or last name, only the sender email. For some reason, they are not being added to our Constant Contact mailing list. What is going on here?
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Hi there,
Your site is not hosted on WordPress.com, but using the open source WordPress.org software at another hosting provider.
Please contact support for the Constant Contact plugin you’re using directly for help with this.
General support for your version of WordPress is provided at https://wordpress.org/support/forums/
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