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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   
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   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?   
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