Phishing Emails

  • bunsongpayat · Member ·

    Hi, Ive been receiving emails for the past days but they all contain a link only. Here are they..

    lithium0824.wordpres.me/2008/11/the-weather-becomes-humid.html

    emineth_combine.wordpres.me/10/03/everything-about-the-pollen.html

    disiri_cute.wordpres.me/09/07/for-depression-there.html

    disiri_cute.wordpres.me/09/07/for-depression-there.html

    The hacker is trying to imitate the url of wordpress (disiri_cute.wordpres.me) but they spelled it wrong. I hope the support can do something about this. My personal email might be at risk. These emails started to pour in when I opened my email in another country. I hope you can do something about this. They are also sending email to a yahoogroup I am a moderator of. They might do something with my email and yahoogroup. Please please. Please email me at [email redacted by slik]. I have another personal email which this hacker is trying to hack. I am not active in my wordpress yet. I just thought I need to report this asap.

    Thanks,

    Olivia del Rosario

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

  • thesacredpath · Member ·

    Olivia, I’ve tagged this for staff attention since they are out until the 19th, but they are monitoring the forums. Hopefully they will respond quickly.

  • thesacredpath · Member ·

    Moderators, could you please remove Olivia’s email address so that she doesn’t get even more spams?

    Thanks.

  • sl1k · Member ·

    @bunsongpayat

    I removed your email so spam bots don;t harvest your email I also broke the links to discourage spam links in the public WP.com forums..

  • pornstarbabylon · Member ·

    Don’t click any of the links. I always cut&paste the links and open them in another browser going in through a proxy. I’ve never received those emails though. But many emails I just delete without clicking the links they want me to open.

    Your email account is only at risk if you use obvious easy passwords like a pet’s name. Set harder passwords and never have the same passwords for your blog/email/Yahoo group. Also never have another administrator for your blog because they can end up deleting everything.

    If that’s your real name too, it should be deleted as well.

    http://www.pctools.com/guides/password/

  • markel · Staff ·

    Hello,

    Because those emails are being sent by a third party, there is unfortunately nothing we can do to prevent them from coming to you.

    Please remember that WordPress.com staff will never ask you for your password.

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