Title: Reporting plugin author for spam?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Reporting plugin author for spam?

 *  [ChrissyDB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrissydb/)
 * (@chrissydb)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reporting-plugin-author-for-spam/)
 * Is there a way to report a plugin author for adding users to an email spam list
   without their consent?
 * Received an email from a “Jack Gonzalez” trying to get me to download this plugin:
   [https://lt.wordpress.org/plugins/mapjam-embedded-maps/](https://lt.wordpress.org/plugins/mapjam-embedded-maps/)
 * I did go and leave a 1 star review with this info hoping a moderator will see
   it. It appears I’m not the only one who has received this email.

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 *  [petercralen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petercralen/)
 * (@petercralen)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reporting-plugin-author-for-spam/#post-6689138)
 * I recommend you to mark that email as SPAM, if he use some newsletter service
   you can even report it for spam.
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reporting-plugin-author-for-spam/#post-6689141)
 * Hi ChrissyDB, sounds like this advertisement was sent out to a lot of people.
   Even forum moderators. The moderator that raised this to us mentioned he didn’t
   subscribe to anything and his email address should not have been used. We think
   this happens every so often and there’s a list of email addresses out there somewhere
   that the author has gotten hold of.
 * Glad to hear you expressed your experience of this through a review. That’s what
   I recommend people affected do:
    [https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/mapjam-embedded-maps](https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/mapjam-embedded-maps)
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reporting-plugin-author-for-spam/#post-6689142)
 * If it’s not a one-off we will investigate this. Do come back and let us know.
 *  [ScollayPetry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scollaypetry/)
 * (@scollaypetry)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reporting-plugin-author-for-spam/#post-6689215)
 * Thanks very much for you feedback, and we truly apologize if we’ve offended. 
   Rest assured the emails are finished!
 * Hundreds of web sites have embedded beautiful maps on their WordPress sites to
   date. Numerous people have asked us for a plugin to reduce the friction a bit,
   and we made an investment to do that. We’re a startup, and it’s unlikely most
   WordPress sites would ever realize a charge for this service.
 * We found a very targeted set of email addresses of TOP WordPress developers, 
   and so we reached out to you. If this was a misstep and offended you, we apologize!
 * Since you didn’t actually use the app, but rated it, we’d like to invite you 
   to have a look at MapJam, try the plugin, and please leave feedback and suggestions
   that would help us to improve the experience we’d appreciate it.
 * Please feel free to write to me at any time at `scollay@mapjam.com`
 * _[ [Signature moderated](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Signatures)]_
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reporting-plugin-author-for-spam/#post-6689219)
 * Just FYI, the Plugins team has looked into this. Spamming, if done via the plugin(
   that is scraping your emails and collecting them via the plugin) is against our
   terms of service. Getting the emails in other ways, outside of the plugin, is
   not. However if you feel the email is spam, please do mention in your review 
   and leave one-stars if you feel appropriate.
 * Basically, if someone’s spamming outside of WP, there’s nothing we can do to 
   stop them, no matter how distasteful we may find it.

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 * In: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/)
 * 5 replies
 * 5 participants
 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reporting-plugin-author-for-spam/#post-6689219)
 * Status: not resolved

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