[Sussex] Spoofed Sender Names

[Fay Zee]

Just a quick note about dubious-looking emails you may have 
seen in your spam folder that looked like they came from our 
list.

Anything purporting to come directly from the mailing list 
address (i.e. the sender is something at mailman.lug.org.uk) is 
fake - the sender address has been spoofed. There is nothing 
the list admins can do about this.

Please just delete those emails.

The recent ones were advertising a job vacancy. I can confirm 
there were a whole tranche with different UK LUG list 
addresses spoofed into the sender field.

Although these emails contained no links, they provided an 
email address to get more information. This is simply a 
device to extract valid personal emails. Anyone who responds 
has selected themselves as a potential future scam target.

The best advice is to just ignore them.

 Best Regards,
Fay
Sussex Linux User Group List Admin
www.eglug.org.uk


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