Be careful: fake emails are circulating in the name of Free/Libre and Open Source projects. Below, an email received by @kdenlive that the official team does not recognize. Be vigilant, these are no doubt scams.
For the curious, here is a follow-up on the scammer who pretended to be from the Kdenlive team. (Email posted yesterday, I'm replying to it ↑).
Confirmed: it's a scam and their goal is to get the target to install malware.
Here's the whole discussion as screenshot, and it wasn't easy because I had to use an old inactive Gmail account 🤢. That's because Protonmail is banned from this impersonator's email address, kdenlivevideo.site (handled by emx.mail.ru).
I won't dig any further.
@pipivovott @davidrevoy Honestly i think that would make people think scammers are from russia, when in realuty, THEY ARE EVERYWHERE
@Ray_Of_Sunlight sounds a bit like russian-apologism to me, Ray. While I appreciate the sentiment that "every country has bad people", russians have weaponised scamming into a hybrid warfare strategy.
@Ray_Of_Sunlight I don't think the fact that russians have tried to scam David, likely from a government-owned farm is:
a. The tipping point that will make people think that ALL russians are bad;
b. Conveys an unhelpful message.
Nor do I think that the world will be significantly worse if westerners would think that ALL russians are bad. 😉
@jonn Yes, but imagine if your country is portrayed as bad, and people thinks you're just like them, wouldn't that make you feel discriminated? (Although US people feel offended everyday)
@Ray_Of_Sunlight @jonn it would, in fact
@jonn I'm not russian, i'm just saying this will make others think that ALL Russians are bad 💀