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Dear All, I have been the subject of a phishing attack in which my contact list became available to some spammers (flipora.com). This was unfortunately as simple as clicking a link in mail from a trusted contact. If you receive an email with a subject something like: "[log in to unmask] has indicated you're a friend. Accept?" then please delete it to spare yourselves the grief and embarrassment I am currently going through. Should you have inadvertently clicked on such a message, as I did, then similar messages are now likely being sent on your behalf (and unknown to you) to your email contacts in an attempt to harvest their contacts. You should check your gmail settings at security.google.com and then, under "connected apps and services" view the account permissions and revoke the permission for Flipora to access contacts, and change your password. I am shamefaced that after years of never falling for one of these scams, a single click was enough to have such horrible results for my friends and colleagues. Please accept my sincere apologies for this. Regards, Bob -- Dr. Robert (Bob) Durrant, Senior Lecturer. Room G.3.30, Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton 3240 New Zealand e: [log in to unmask] w: http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/~bobd/ t: +64 (0)7 838 4466 x8334 f: +64 (0)7 838 4155 You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.