User talk:Cunningpal

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I received an e-mail as follows:

"Someone from the IP address 70.50.55.140 requested that we send you a new login password for the English Wikipedia.

The new password for the user account "Cunningpal" is "j2DytPr". You can now log in to Wikipedia using that password."

That is my IP address, but I am the only person who uses, or has ever used my computer. I did not request a new password.

Is this an instance of vandalism? Why would someone want to log in to my account?

Cunningpal 02:51, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Huh. People can request new password sends, but if you ignore them, nothing happens. Unfortunately, there's not much else you can do about it (if this becomes a persistent problem, you could set up some filters to block the emails for awhile). If it's coming from your IP address, and you didn't request it, then you're probably on a shared IP with somebody who clicked it (whether by chance, out of curiosity, or maliciously, I couldn't say). From what I recall, that does look about like requested password emails. As I said, though, if you ignore them, they shouldn't be any problem. – Luna Santin (talk) 02:59, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome

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