On Monday 25 November 2019 08:35:01 Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Monday 25 November 2019 08:00:24 andy pugh wrote:
> > On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 at 12:52, Gene Heskett <[email protected]>
>
> wrote:
> > > I had a donation ready to go, but what do I use for credentials?
> > > No opportunity to use a credit card.
> >
> > There are three buttons, bank account, credit card and paypal.
>
> Only bank account was shown here.
>
> > >  I may be country boy dumb, but I'm not stupid.  This
> > > looks like a phishing scam to me.
> >
> > The donation page is linked directly from the Gnome (https) web
> > site. I chose to trust it on that basis.
>
> The page presented to me came from an outfit called "Pride" and was
> the poorest, most obvious phishing attempt I have ever seen. Man in
> the middle attack, so poorly done the alarms went off instantly. It
> even had the chutzpaugh to threaten me when I closed the link.
>
> I found an email link, and have advised the Gnome Foundations people
> of it, asking to be advised when its been fixed. I'd still donate,
> TANSTAAFL & all that.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

I've rx'd a boiler plate reply, that they are reviewing it.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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