I recently received an email from someone apparently impersonating Sublime HQ attempting to convince me to add a new Package Control repository. This looks a lot like a phishing attempt so I’m posting this message here to alert Sublime HQ, Package Control maintainers and other users about it.

Follows below the phising email message:

Hello [Name]!

We’re pleased to announce that Sublime Text will soon be launching our own official plugins through Package Control! As a licensed Sublime Text user, we’d like to offer you the chance to be one of the first users with access to a preview release. Your API key will expire if it is not used by Friday, 11 August 2017. Please do not share your API key.

The simplest method to prepare Sublime Text for our plugins is by adding the preview repository to Package Control. To do this:

Launch Sublime Text Press ctrl+shift+p Click “Package Control: Add Repository” Enter the following URL for your exclusive preview repository:

[Link removed; it pointed to package-control.io]

You can expect to see Sublime Text notify you about new plugins from next week! We look forward to your feedback and thank you for your support.