Spoofing
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Using the free version of the Wordfence plugin. Developed and managed the website logging in and out for a week plus. This weekend tried to log in from home -have done so many times. Greeted with this:
[This sender failed our fraud detection checks and may not be who they appear to be. Learn about spoofing at http://aka.ms/LearnAboutSpoofing%5D
This email was sent from your website “Portland Adventist Community Services” by the Wordfence plugin at Sunday 15th of April 2018 at 05:18:36 PM
The Wordfence administrative URL for this site is: http://www.pacsonline.org/wp-admin/admin.php?page=Wordfence
Someone tried to recover the password for user with email address: [email protected]
User IP:
User hostname:
User location:Please instruct how to resolve. I can no longer access our wordpress site.
The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]
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Wfalaa,
I believe I have figured it out and it is reduced to an annoyance. Every email I receive from Wordfence has the header,
[This sender failed our fraud detection checks and may not be who they appear to be. Learn about spoofing at http://aka.ms/LearnAboutSpoofing%5D%5D
The company that is hosting my wordpress account provided this insight:
“Wordfence, in many cases, is an amazing plugin, but it can cause issues. We have heightened security on our servers, and that does appear to upset WordFence. As such, we recommend disabling WordFence.”
Now that I know the source, understand how it is being generated, and know that I can still access my account albeit with an annoying false positive message, I can live with it. the extra protection that Wordfence provides is worth it (ps. I have upgraded to premium)
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