Dear All My subject line was somehow 'edited' by the list software, which removed the most crucial element: It was "Another list called [Wikimedia-l] has been created on Google". "Wikimedia-l" was removed fronm the line. The email follows:
2015-01-11 15:11 GMT+02:00 Rui Correia <[email protected]>: > Dear Colleagues > > A few days ago I started received a number of emails from > "[Wikimedia-l]", which I found odd, as I had set my delivery satus to > "no mail". > > It turns out that the emails are not coming from > "[email protected]", but from "wikimedia-l > <[email protected]>". However, the display name of the list > is simply Wikimedia-l, identical to the name of this list. > > I find it perturbing that people could be duped into participating in > discussions on a forum other then what they thought was the case. This > borders on phishing, scamming, posing, pretending to be someone else > to get benefit out of it. In fact, in a number of jurisdictions it is > taken as a seriuos crime. > > Said list was created by a user by the name of Toby Dollmann and he or > she has been adding people willy-nilly, regardless of whether they are > involved with Wikipedia/ Wikimedia or not and completely without thei > knowing about it, based on some event atended by "a number of people", > who expressed desire for a list, an idea supported by three or four of > those people. > > Any idea as to what could be done about this? > > Best regards, > > Rui > > -- > _________________________ > Rui Correia > Advocacy, Human Rights, Media and Language Work Consultant > Bridge to Angola - Angola Liaison Consultant > > Mobile Number in South Africa +27 74 425 4186 > Número de Telemóvel na África do Sul +27 74 425 4186 > _______________ > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- _________________________ Rui Correia Advocacy, Human Rights, Media and Language Work Consultant Bridge to Angola - Angola Liaison Consultant Mobile Number in South Africa +27 74 425 4186 Número de Telemóvel na África do Sul +27 74 425 4186 _______________ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
