Iv'e just received a weird email making me owner of an organization I don't recognize.

[shawty]

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Don't really know where to put this, but I've just received the following email:

The email domain originating things, seems to be legit:

and the email address this has been sent to, is my registered email address for my own github repos page at github.com/shawty

When I look at the organisation, I don't recognise the "billing email", and there are no repos, or other people in the organisation, other than myself.

I most certainly have not created this organisation, and I'm not aware of anyone creating it for me, or for any of the projects I'm currently working on.

I do however appear to have full rights to perform any action I want on this organization.

Anyone got any ideas what's going on here?

GitHub bug?
Mistyped email address?
Attempted Phishing Exercise?

Cheers
Shawty

[MindOfBear]

Hello @shawty,

By the links in the screenshot, for me, its not looking like phishing. If you can acces the organization from you github profile (without any click on the email), i recommend you to notify Github in order to check the case. If you can't see the organization in your github profile, i recommend you to just ignore the email.

Cheers,
Ovidiu

[shawty]

Hi @MindOfBear,

I just checked my "organisations" from my profile menu, and yup, the organisation does indeed show up, with me as the owner, and without involving the email.

Thing is, I was actually trying to notify GitHub when I ended up here. They kind of make it quite hard to tell them anything unless your a paying customer or on one of their support plans.

Any pointers you have on how to notify them of this, would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers
Shawty

[ebndev]

Hi @shawty,

Since you have access to the organization as an owner, I would recommend deleting the organization or you also have the option to leave it.

While this community is managed by GitHub employees, it is not a support forum. The only place to go for answers to account-specific questions like this one is opening a ticket on our Support page.

As no other Community Discussions team members will be able to provide additional help with account related questions I am going to close this discussion. We appreciate your understanding!