Title: Attempted log ins
Last modified: January 9, 2017

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# Attempted log ins

 *  [aylor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aylor/)
 * (@aylor)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attempted-log-ins/)
 * Hi all,
 * I wonder whether someone could help me. Wordfence send me regular emails showing
   me attempted log in attempts.
 * It gives me their username, number of attempts and whether they are an existing
   user or not.
 * However today it has sent me two log in, apparently from existing users but they
   are not! There is no such member. Any idea on why it is telling me they are an
   existing member when they clearly are not?

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 *  [wfalaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfalaa/)
 * (@wfalaa)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attempted-log-ins/#post-8639199)
 * Hi,
    Are these two login attempts on your main website? don’t you have any other
   WordPress installation on a sub-directory or something?
 * Make sure to check “[Scan for admin users created outside of WordPress](https://docs.wordfence.com/en/Wordfence_options#Scan_for_admin_users_created_outside_of_WordPress)”
   option under (Wordfence > Options => Scans to include) and run a scan on your
   website, also you should double check if these users exist on “WordPress users”
   page or “wp_users” table in the database or not.
 * Let me know how it goes,
    Thanks.

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 * Last reply from: [wfalaa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfalaa/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attempted-log-ins/#post-8639199)
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