Dear all,

Suffice to say I won’t ever be asking to pay invoices on this mailing list but many apologies for the phishing email you received which purported to come from my email address. I can see this has generated a great deal of discussion on this thread.

Just to make you aware that I’ve reported the issue to the IS helpline here at the university who are looking into this as a matter of urgency. I’ve also run Malware checks on both my computer and mobile (using Malwarebytes and Norton) but nothing seems amiss/ turning up in these scans so far.

I’m wondering also if this is not a university email problem per se given I have also received another phishing scam email to my gmail purporting to be from Jason’s email address at the National Library of Wales. So Jason and Wikimedia UK list admins may want to run scans too (belt and braces after all!).

Apologies all once again.

Best wishes,

Ewan

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