<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;">This is a case where (most) resistance is futile.</span><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;"> I get 5-20 of these every day, and for several months already. It sounds like you're getting way less, and only more recently.</span><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;">The good news is that these are terribly obvious scams to even just moderately astute observers, but the bad news is that some Canadians do fall for it. I'm also not surprised that the registrar(s) and the Web hosting site(s) you mentioned don't care.<br></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;">Gilbert's suggestion of reporting this to Canada Post does have merit, as Canada Post is also a victim by being impostered. The problem is, we can't identify the culprit (who is often in another part of the world).</span><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Trevor's suggestions are interesting, but "block numbers", "block e-mail addresses", "block Websites", etc, are all useless, as these crooks change numbers, e-mail addresses, and Websites several times a day. I discovered that several weeks ago when I pursued a particular number/address/site within a few hours of receiving the same texts/e-mails multiple times, and already, the numbers were "out of service", the e-mail addresses bounced, the sites were gone, and the domain names were suspended (so some registrars and hosts do act swiftly).<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">As for telephone numbers, they are usually false callerID (spoofing) in the first place, and the requested reply is a Web link. As a VoIP implementer and reseller myself, I've tested how easy it is to fake the callerID. When a friend or customer doubts this, I just call them back "from their own number". That settles it quickly (and freaks them out)!<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;">Indeed, as per Trevor, a well-informed public is the best defense.<br></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;">Hartmut</span><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="font" style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">On Fri 15 Mar 2024 at 10:17:13 -05:00, Brian Lowe <<a href="mailto:brian2@groupbcl.ca">brian2@groupbcl.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Recently I've received SMS alerts regarding package delivery problems <br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">directing me to three different scam sites:<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">* completeshipingform.info (note the misspelling)<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">* shipment-overview.info<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">* shipmentsetback.info<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">The sites masquerade as Canada Post and are stealing people's names, <br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, and credit card info. They are designed <br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">for mobile devices; if the user-agent indicates a desktop browser they <br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">redirect to Google. (One can get around this by installing an add-on to spoof <br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">the user-agent.)<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">I complained to NameSilo, the registrar. They told me they don't care what's <br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">running on the site they've registered.<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">I've filed multiple complaints with Alibaba Cloud, who are apparently hosting <br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">these sites. They've done nothing. A chat with customer support indicated they <br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">want to get "their side" of the story--that is, the customer who put up the <br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">site. This is extremely disingenuous on their part, as it's obvious the sites <br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">are scams and exist only to steal information.<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">I'm disappointed and frustrated at the lack of response to thieves and <br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">scammers openly operating on the web while the gatekeepers sit aside and do <br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">nothing.<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">_______________________________________________<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;">Roundtable mailing list<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="mailto:Roundtable@muug.ca">Roundtable@muug.ca</a><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable">https://muug.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable</a><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div></blockquote><div style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><br></div></body></html>