DHL Post Scam

edscdk · 13 Dec 2016 at 14:01

Vanquish-Storm said:
Action Fraud are a waste of space they never seem to care when we report thing. Unless its the Government being defrauded you will get no where with them.

I have been ensured this has been passed on to the DHL IT Security by a contact.

The owner of the PC that sent the email may not be in the UK
The person running the bot net is not going to be in the UK
The owner of the fake website will not be in the UK
The registrar of the domain name will not be in the UK

until the top level domain hosts more tightly control registration of domains and make it easier to shut down scam sites this is NEVER going to be fixed

Leprechaun312 · 13 Dec 2016 at 14:10

edscdk said:
The owner of the PC that sent the email may not be in the UK
The person running the bot net is not going to be in the UK
The owner of the fake website will not be in the UK
The registrar of the domain name will not be in the UK

until the top level domain hosts more tightly control registration of domains and make it easier to shut down scam sites this is NEVER going to be fixed

It's not just that, phishing scam sites are so easy to setup that it's like whack a mole. Bring down one, in the time it's taken a few hundred more have popped up.

You can clone an entire site with a tool, buy a similar hostname to the original and start emailing email address off e.g. leaked database dumps inside an hour.

The only way to properly combat phishing attempts is to be wise to them and know they are a scam, do what Adolf hamster said, google the address and navigate from there, never follow the hyperlink.

Vanquish-Storm · 13 Dec 2016 at 14:13

edscdk said:
The owner of the PC that sent the email may not be in the UK
The person running the bot net is not going to be in the UK
The owner of the fake website will not be in the UK
The registrar of the domain name will not be in the UK

until the top level domain hosts more tightly control registration of domains and make it easier to shut down scam sites this is NEVER going to be fixed

If this is in regards to my comments about Action Fraud I am not just basing my opinion on fake websites.

Action Fraud and the Police (who tell you to go to action fraud) were also useless when dealing with fraudsters (is that the term?) that were in the UK using stolen credit card information - we even told the Police the address to go to but they would not get involved.

Kuros · 13 Dec 2016 at 14:13

The problem is, as said above, it's easy to set these things up...

Cost is next to nothing, which one would assume they'd easily reclaim from the first victim.

The only solution is awareness on how not to get scammed, which is easy for most people on here but not so much for 80 year old betty down the road on an ipad.

diamount · 13 Dec 2016 at 14:30

Kuros said:
The problem is, as said above, it's easy to set these things up...

Cost is next to nothing, which one would assume they'd easily reclaim from the first victim.

The only solution is awareness on how not to get scammed, which is easy for most people on here but not so much for 80 year old betty down the road on an ipad.

Forget 80 year old Betty, my 19 year old sister almost fell for the tax refund scam.

GhostWKD · 13 Dec 2016 at 14:41

diamount said:
Forget 80 year old Betty, my 19 year old sister almost fell for the tax refund scam.

I'll hold my hands up and say I almost fell for a tax refund one. Been waiting on a tax refund for ages and then got a text saying it had been processed. Half asleep and filled in page one of my details and then on page 2 I suddenly realized and felt a right pillock. From memory I hadn't given them any details on page one that would put me at risk but I do even now constantly keep an eye on things just incase.

Steeps · 13 Dec 2016 at 15:26

memyselfandi said:
The very fact that a courier company is trying to only charge you 45p for anything should be ringing all sorts of alarm bells anyway ....

This, parcelforce are happy to whack a £9 handling charge on anything they touch, even Royal Mail want £1 and you have to go to the office to look at it yourself!

demonix · 13 Dec 2016 at 16:43

kthula666 said:
Just send a message asking where the company letterbox is located.

That would be easy with a whois check of the domain as the idiot behind this scam didn't even pay for any whois protection.

You might also want to report this to 123-reg who is listed as the domain registrar for the site.

413x · 13 Dec 2016 at 18:29

demonix said:
That would be easy with a whois check of the domain as the idiot behind this scam didn't even pay for any whois protection.

You might also want to report this to 123-reg who is listed as the domain registrar for the site.

I think the joke was missed lol

Destination · 13 Dec 2016 at 22:14

edscdk said:
The owner of the PC that sent the email may not be in the UK
The person running the bot net is not going to be in the UK
The owner of the fake website will not be in the UK
The registrar of the domain name will not be in the UK

until the top level domain hosts more tightly control registration of domains and make it easier to shut down scam sites this is NEVER going to be fixed

This is why we have type 45s.... time to put them to use.
Truly think if we started the odd drone strike in Nigeria, and took out a few floors of high rises in Indian call centres the fraud rate in the UK would plummet.

Vanquish-Storm · 13 Dec 2016 at 23:22

Last I heard DHL IT security in Germany were working on getting the site down. I hope OP doesn't mind me passing this on to them.