Title: suspicious email from wordpress
Last modified: April 20, 2023

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# suspicious email from wordpress

 *  [rawan2021](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rawan2021/)
 * (@rawan2021)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/suspicious-email-from-wordpress/)
 * hi,
 * I received an email from a sender with this account :wordpress@(mywebsiteURL)
   telling me that my website admin email was changed, i didn’t change it and upon
   checking, it hasn’t changed.
 * Can anyone explain whats this and how can anyone create an email using someone
   else’s website name.

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 *  Moderator [Yui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fierevere/)
 * (@fierevere)
 * 永子
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/suspicious-email-from-wordpress/#post-16671080)
 * You can inspect email headers, to determine message route, 
   however it has been
   most likely sent from your wordpress instance and originates from your hosting
   server. In that case its a bad sign and most likely indicates that someone (likely
   malicious) is trying to take over (hack) your WordPress installation.
 * > [FAQ My site was hacked](https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/faq-my-site-was-hacked/)
 *  [carneros](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carneros/)
 * (@carneros)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/suspicious-email-from-wordpress/#post-16673047)
 * What can we do if we think someone might be trying to hack into our account? 
   I received a message yesterday about a set of failed login attempts from a random
   IP address.

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 * In: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/)
 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [carneros](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carneros/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/suspicious-email-from-wordpress/#post-16673047)
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