From Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it  Thu Feb 12 20:11:46 2026
From: Oliver.Kutz at unibz.it (Kutz Oliver)
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:11:46 +0000
Subject: [iaoa-general] Phishing attacks to IAOA members
Message-ID: <95534AC0-E7CE-42DE-B6CF-7FB3A2863EE7@unibz.it>

Dear all, 

this is just a short note and warning. 

On regular intervals, we are experiencing phishing attacks where unknown parties impersonate me as president of IAOA, or other members of the executive council, and contact members of the IAOA for some kind of emergency action, trying to initiate money transfers. 

Often the people who get contacted are ?fished? from some document or page on IAOA.org <http://iaoa.org/>.  

Unfortunately these email attacks are getting more sophisticated, and with the help of LLMs can appear quite convincing. 

Any email that tries to create urgency and involves financial transactions will be 100% spam. Please ignore and delete, and in general it is best not to engage or reply.

If in doubt, you can always contact info at iaoa.org <mailto:info at iaoa.org>

All the best, 

Oliver Kutz
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President, International Association for Ontology and its Applications - IAOA.org

oliver.kutz at unibz.it
http://www.inf.unibz.it/~okutz/