Subj : eTA
To   : Ward Dossche
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Oct 09 2022 09:27:00

Hello Ward Dossche!

** On Sunday 09.10.22 - 11:07, Ward Dossche wrote to All:

 WD> To my Canadian friends ... 3 weeks from now I will be
 WD> residing in Calgary for a short while, a very short while
 WD> even ...

Thanks for the warning.   :D


 WD> [...] In Canada they need to know the exact departure time
 WD> of your inbound flight ... up to the minute. I wrap my
 WD> mind around it why that is important but such things can
 WD> only sprout from the minds of a de-brained civil servant,
 WD> every country has them. They're even being paid to come up
 WD> with such nonsense ...

Those were questions posted on-line? If that was the spoofed  
site, then it is obvious why.


 WD> Even at first sight I didn't really see it but then it
 WD> hit: the site had been completely spoofed with 100%
 WD> identical pages and probably if the innocent non-
 WD> suspecting traveller paid the CAD$55.00 probably those
 WD> guys would send the original request to Canada
 WD> Immigration, pay the CAD$7.00 and keep CAD$48.00 for them.

Those are "kind" scammers to pay the 7 on your behalf.

But, didn't you check the full URLS of the site you landed on?  
That would be a big elephant in the room.  If you did this  
entirely on a smartphone/tablet, then maybe the URLs are are  
probably obfuscated.

 WD> The scammers are becoming real good ...

Nah.. we are not enabling full URL view on smartphone/tablets.  
This wouldn't necessarily be a problem using a regular browser.

What link did you visit?
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