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|    August Abolins to Ward Dossche    |
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|    09 Oct 22 09:27:00    |
      MSGID: 1:153/757.21@fidonet 0144bf07       REPLY: 2:292/854 100d0d28       PID: OpenXP/5.0.51 (Win32)       CHRS: ASCII 1       TZUTC: -0400       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?       --        ../|ug              --- OpenXP 5.0.51        * Origin: Stare into this point intently ->.<- (1:153/757.21)       SEEN-BY: 15/0 105/81 106/201 124/5016 129/305 134/100 153/0 141 149       SEEN-BY: 153/757 7715 203/0 218/700 840 220/70 221/0 6 226/17 30 229/110       SEEN-BY: 229/111 112 113 275 317 426 428 470 664 700 250/8 267/800       SEEN-BY: 280/464 5003 282/1038 292/854 8125 301/1 310/31 317/3 320/219       SEEN-BY: 322/757 341/66 234 396/45 423/120 633/280 712/848 770/1 100       SEEN-BY: 770/340 772/210 220 230 2320/105 2452/250 3634/24       PATH: 153/757 280/464 770/1 317/3 229/426           |
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