I think, as with many things, we need to wait for the WMF to update
mailman. I'm no expert, but...

On 24 August 2017 at 21:10, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:

> We just had a phishing mail come through to wikimediauk-l a few days
> ago. The email wasn't sent by the poster - but by someone else using
> his email address. His university gave some advice, but I'm not sure
> what they mean nor how to effectively implement this using any
> settings we have in Mailman ... so in the general case, is there
> anything we can do about this type of phishing mail?
>
>
> - d.
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: MCANDREW Ewan <[email protected]>
> Date: 24 August 2017 at 11:10
> Subject: FW: I170821-0616 about "Phidhing scam problem Fwd:
> [Wikimediauk-l] #4947276 Invoice secondary Notice" has been resolved
> To: Lucy Crompton-Reid <[email protected]>,
> "[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
> Richard Nevell <[email protected]>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> Please see below message regarding the phishing message on the Wiki
> mailing lists.
>
>
>
> Are we able to provide the ‘pure mail headers’?
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> Ewan
>
>
>
> Ewan McAndrew
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>
>
> From: UoE UniDesk Number I170821-0616
> Sent: 24 August 2017 10:04
> To: MCANDREW Ewan
> Subject: I170821-0616 about "Phidhing scam problem Fwd:
> [Wikimediauk-l] #4947276 Invoice secondary Notice" has been resolved
>
>
>
> Hello Ewan
>
> The mail admins have taken a further look at this and have added the
> following information:
>
> 'The quoted message is a digest containing the scam message and not
> the original scam message. It contains no information to show where
> the original came from as it only shows an excerpt of its headers.
>
> However, it does *apparently* contain a from address like
>
> [email protected]< [email protected]>
>
> and that *suggests* that the original *may* have come from
> [email protected] - but it is impossible to
> be sure of anything without seeing the original. That would presumably
> require the cooperation of the list manager or any list member who
> receives individual messages rather than digests.'
>
> In summary then ideally the UoE postmaster would need to see 'pure'
> mail headers from an individual message, as opposed to those from a
> digest.
>
> Best wishes
> Jono
>
> ....................
>
> Hi,
>
> full message header below ? please can you help.
>
> NB: Wondering if this is actually a University of Edinburgh email
> account problem or if it is a gmail or Wikimedia mailing list being
> compromised problem however as I have received another phishing spam
> message from a different email address from this Wikimedia mailing
> list now (purporting to be from Jason Evans at the National Library of
> Wales).
>
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