[LPIL - Board of Directors] Phishing Warning

[Jake Leonard]

Now that you mention that Alexa,

I had one of those emails during Chase Renwick's final month as chair. 
Chase never emailed me, and he confirmed that when I shared a screenshot 
of it to him.

*Jake Leonard*
*Interim Chairman and Executive Director | ChrisMont Libertarian Central 
Committee* (/Christian County, Montgomery County/)
/*Congress*: 15/ | /*Montgomery County*: Illinois Senate 54/55, Illinois 
House 107/108/110/ | /*Christian County*: Illinois Senate 48/54, 
Illinois House 95/96/107/108/

*Political Director | Libertarian Party of Illinois*
800 Capps Ave. | Nokomis, IL 62075-1415
*Mobile*: (217) 565-9709 <tel:2175659709> | (217) 565-9273 
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On 8/28/2023 8:10 PM, 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
> ---
> 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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