WordPress Password Reset SPAM

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  alyssanassnerweb · Member · Oct 9, 2017 at 3:58 pm

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  Hey!

  So I’ve been getting 6-15 emails a day from various accounts that don’t belong to me. One of which being (http://longrun.com) there are others but I’ve been deleting them up until now. This is starting to become a really annoying problem and I get more and more emails everyday. I had, at one point, admin granted for another blog called DESIGN WORK LIFE, so these password reset requests aren’t even coming through for my account, per se. Is there any better way to report these or make them stop? Because even though I have them flagged as SPAM, every time a new account requests the reset it comes through again. This seems like some sort of phishing scam and it’s making me both annoyed and uncomfortable.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Oct 10, 2017 at 8:16 am

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  Hi there,

  From what email address are you receiving these emails? If an email is from us it will come from a @wordpress.com address, and neither our email logs nor your account’s logs show that we’ve sent you any password reset emails.

  If the domain after the @ in the FROM address is anything else, it means we’re not sending the emails, and therefore have no way to stop them. Most likely this is a phishing attack by someone trying to get you to reveal your login credentials for your self-hosted site, so please don’t click any links in those emails under any circumstances. My advice would be to set up a filter in Gmail to automatically delete those emails as they come in.

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  erikseansdad · Member · Oct 12, 2017 at 9:25 pm

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  I’m getting a jillion spam emails on my yahoo email account. I’ve never used wordpress before and don’t even know what wordpress is. How do block emails from wordpress.com? Many of them have @wordpress.com Thanks

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · Oct 15, 2017 at 12:23 pm

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  Good morning erikseandad –

  Here are the instructions for managing your Yahoo email settings: https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN16025.html

  Can you share more about the contents of the email?

  One last note is to make sure that your email account is secured with a strong password, and 2 factor authorization is enabled if available through Yahoo.

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  erikseansdad · Member · Oct 16, 2017 at 9:09 pm

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  Hello,

  I have been signed up by some spammer to receive hundreds, if not thousands, of newsletters from WordPress and other newsletters. I have yahoo sucecssfully blocking most of them now. Thank you for your assistance

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · Oct 17, 2017 at 4:08 pm

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  You’re welcome :)