[LPIL - Board of Directors] Phishing Warning

[Alexa Maffei]

I case you can't see the photo from my last response (try viewing it in 
HTML and you should see it), I've attached it here.
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Alexa Maffei
  State Central Committee Rep, 10th District
  Libertarian Party of Illinois
  scc10 at lpillinois.org
  (815) 274-1976

On 2023-08-28 20:10, Alexa Maffei via Lpil-bod wrote:
> 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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