[LPIL - Board of Directors] Phishing Warning

[Alexa Maffei]

I actually think this is a serious problem that we really need to look 
further into and if I'm being honest, I'm a little concerned by people's 
lack of concern. I would've brought it up to discuss at the last BOD 
meeting, but I couldn't attend due to it conflicting with another 
libertarian meeting. I agree with Ken that information security 
violations are going to happen; however, there's a difference between 
getting a suspicious email telling you to click a link to 'find hot 
singles in your area' and someone reaching out to several people in 
leadership and successfully impersonating the leader of our state party. 
This is the phishing email I (and others) received:

In hindsight, it's definitely strange, but there are no red flags within 
the message itself like misspelled words, weird links or attachments, 
requests for personal info, or anything seemingly nefarious or 
suspicious. At my job, I regularly work with datasets containing social 
security numbers and my company occasionally sends out fake phishing 
emails as tests to ensure tech employees like myself report anything 
suspicious. Yet I didn't realize this was actually a phishing attempt 
until Bob mentioned it to me offhand a little over a week ago. We need 
to figure out what happened here and probably look into taking some 
additional measures to ensure sensitive information is not compromised.

Best,
Alexa

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Alexa Maffei
  State Central Committee Rep, 10th District
  Libertarian Party of Illinois
  scc10 at lpillinois.org
  (815) 274-1976

On 2023-08-20 23:36, Ken Mattes via Lpil-bod wrote:

> In my volunteer work with the McHenry County EMA I am privy to 
> sensitive information, as it is with my work with LPIL.
> 
> Cyberterror is our region's top threat by far. Drought is way behind in 
> second place. Both of these threats have a 100% chance of happening; in 
> other words, these things WILL happen; it's not a question of if; it is 
> a question of when and where.
> 
> The Board of Directors of the Libertarian Party of Illinois is 
> comprised of some of the best individuals I have ever meet. Not a 
> single one of us would ever ask any of you to do anything 
> surrepticiously. Our team does not operate that way.
> 
> Please contine to report any scurrilous messages or emails to our team, 
> and attach screenshots if you can.
> 
> On 2023-08-20 21:15, Justin Tucker via Lpil-bod wrote:
> 
>> Team -  It has come to my attention that several people have received 
>> emails seemingly from Bill Redpath and possibly other board members 
>> with no subject line vaguely asking them to chat a little via email. 
>> This is actually a phishing attempt. Do not open the email. If you 
>> have done so already, do not respond, and absolutely do not provide 
>> any personal information, click on any links, or download any 
>> attachments in it. If you suspect an email you've received could be 
>> suspicious, hover over the sender's name. A pop-up with their email 
>> address will appear. If it isn't chair at lpillinois.org or 
>> wredpath2 at yahoo.com, it is not Bill Redpath. Someone received one from 
>> a Gmail account called officemaile712.
>> 
>> If you have received or receive an email like I described or any email 
>> that you find suspicious, please let me know as soon as possible.
>> 
>> Best,
>> Justin Tucker
>> Executive Director, Libertarian Party of Illinois
> 
> --
> Ken Mattes
> Secretary, Libertarian Party of Illinois
> secretary at lpillinois.org
> 815 342 5177
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