Oh definitely, please avoid! Same goes for anyone else receiving something like this. Unless you are expecting an invoice from Wikimedia UK, which a) seems unlikely and b) would almost certainly not come from Ewan. Thanks for sharing Owen so people can be on their guard...Best, Lucy On 21 August 2017 at 10:10, Owen Blacker <owen(a)blacker.me.uk> wrote: -- Lucy Crompton-Reid Chief Executive Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 207 065 0991 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*

On 21/08/17 11:09, Lucy Crompton-Reid wrote: Any one of the four admins care to comment? Gordon

Thank you :) On 21 August 2017 at 17:16, Rex X <rexx(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: -- Lucy Crompton-Reid Chief Executive Wikimedia UK +44 (0) 207 065 0991 Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.*

On 21/08/2017 21:34, Gordon Joly wrote: Perhaps the dozens of messages that Ewan has posted to this email list FROM that email address on the many archive publicly available of wikimediauk-l? Katie -- Katie Chan Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the view of any organisation the author is associated with or employed by. Experience is a good school but the fees are high. - Heinrich Heine --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

There's always a possibility that Ewan's mail client is compromised, of course, so that scanning with a good malware detector is sensible. I usually recommend "Malwarebytes free", but others also do the job. It's just as likely that his email address has been "harvested" by automated programs scanning publicly available email archives, and Ewan also displays his email address in clear text on his Wikipedia user page, which I would recommend against as well. -- Rexx

That's what happened, Gordo. Look at the source of the original post and it's obviously originating from 189.223.76.180 (Tijuana), despite the spoofed "From:" field. You can't spoof the originating IP, because it's added by the first relay, not by the original poster. -- Rexx