Taking Down Sites on an Inaccessible Account

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    1novelconcept · Member ·

    Hello, I am Lilyana (legal name Michael) Botscharow. I edited blogs for my dad, Bernhard ‘John’ Friederick Botscharow, for many years before he passed away. For personal reasons, I would like his wordpress blogs – jbotscharow.wordpress.com and heresiology.wordpress.com – to be taken down, but I have absolutely no access to his recovery e-mail and can’t log in on his admin account any longer. I would like to ask a moderator to please go in and shut down the sites for me, preferably with as few questions as possible as the aforementioned personal reasons are very sensitive and I do not wish to share them publicly.

    That said, I would be willing to answer security questions to verify my identity in a private communication, if needed. I can answer just about any question, and even give you a list of all the possible passwords to his account as well as the e-mail address it’s tied to. The only thing I cannot answer is anything sent to his e-mail account itself, as all the information was saved on an old computer I no longer own.

    Thank you very much.

    WP.com: Yes
    Correct account: Unknown

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to moderators and staff)

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    aisajib · Member ·

    Hi there!

    Please note that where the ownership cannot be established for an account, we have these options: https://wordpress.com/support/account-recovery/#if-ownership-cannot-be-established

    We aren’t able to help with this in the forums, though. Please send an email with the details to passwordhelp@wordpress.com and we’ll be happy to help you with this via email.

    Regards

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