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TIP: The online Bushwalk Inventory System can help bushwalkers with a variety of bushwalk planning tasks, including: Manage which items they take bushwalking so that they do not forget anything they might need, plan meals for their walks, and automatically compile food/fuel shopping lists (lists of consumables) required to make and cook the meals for each walk. It is particularly useful for planning for groups who share food or other items, but is also useful for individual walkers.Spam regarding parcel delivery
Thu 11 Nov, 2010 9:30 pm
Just in the last couple of weeks I ordered an MSR E-bivy through PriceUSA.com.au. Just now I recieved an email in my junk mail folder, which I will post below. I normally would ignore such spam but since I was expecting a parcel I looked twice. I then Googled the UPS address and the word spam and came up with quite a few sites disclosing it as a scam. Perhaps they have some phishing software that can detect orders I dont know. Just giving everyone the heads up to ignore such rubbish.
I will also be contacting PriceUSA.com.au just in case other customers of theirs may also be targeted.
UPS®Corporate Headquarters
55 Glenlake Parkway, NE
Atlanta , GA 30328
Final Notice Dear Customer,
This is to notify you that your package has been intercepted and is temporarily being held in transit in Spain .The delivery process has been suspended for the following reasons.
1. It has been detected that your package contains taxable items .
2. In line with new laws, items transiting through the EU are to be fully taxed and are subject to postal inspection by transitting postal authorities.
Concluding the verification on the package it has been ascertained that adequate tax was not paid on the package.
Your name and email address were on the package for contact details.
The contents have been ascertained as a non-risk item,however under new laws any package transiting through the EU is liable to full tax coverage
payment.The sender did pay the appropriate courier fee but did not state the true value of the contents of
the package .We are therefore requesting you pay full tax for the coverage of $119 USD on the package.
In order for your package to be released, you are obligated to pay the due tax on the contents of the package You should therefore contact your assigned claims Officer, Carl Brooks to assist with the tax payment in Spain ,where your package is currently being held While we wait to receive from you the tax File Number to enable us forward your package to your address. Below is the contact information of your assigned claims Officer.
Name: Mr. Carl Brooks
Email address:carl-brooks@ups.claims.ir
Tel: 1-678-701 8046
Note:tax coverage fees are payable to Spanish authorities through your assigned claims Officer.UPS® does not accept fees on behalf of foreign authorities.
Once you receive your tax File Number, kindly forward file number or scanned document to your assigned claims Officer for onward delivery to UPS®.
When making contact with your assigned claims officer via email or phone please quote reference 1ZE821040376463732 and a confirmation of your name and address for for swift location of package details.
The status of your package can be tracked as soon as payment has been confirmed
Soon as we have received the required tax payment We shall forward your package to its destination.
Copyright © 1994-2010 UPS® , Inc. All rights reserved.
I will also be contacting PriceUSA.com.au just in case other customers of theirs may also be targeted.
UPS®Corporate Headquarters
55 Glenlake Parkway, NE
Atlanta , GA 30328
Final Notice Dear Customer,
This is to notify you that your package has been intercepted and is temporarily being held in transit in Spain .The delivery process has been suspended for the following reasons.
1. It has been detected that your package contains taxable items .
2. In line with new laws, items transiting through the EU are to be fully taxed and are subject to postal inspection by transitting postal authorities.
Concluding the verification on the package it has been ascertained that adequate tax was not paid on the package.
Your name and email address were on the package for contact details.
The contents have been ascertained as a non-risk item,however under new laws any package transiting through the EU is liable to full tax coverage
payment.The sender did pay the appropriate courier fee but did not state the true value of the contents of
the package .We are therefore requesting you pay full tax for the coverage of $119 USD on the package.
In order for your package to be released, you are obligated to pay the due tax on the contents of the package You should therefore contact your assigned claims Officer, Carl Brooks to assist with the tax payment in Spain ,where your package is currently being held While we wait to receive from you the tax File Number to enable us forward your package to your address. Below is the contact information of your assigned claims Officer.
Name: Mr. Carl Brooks
Email address:carl-brooks@ups.claims.ir
Tel: 1-678-701 8046
Note:tax coverage fees are payable to Spanish authorities through your assigned claims Officer.UPS® does not accept fees on behalf of foreign authorities.
Once you receive your tax File Number, kindly forward file number or scanned document to your assigned claims Officer for onward delivery to UPS®.
When making contact with your assigned claims officer via email or phone please quote reference 1ZE821040376463732 and a confirmation of your name and address for for swift location of package details.
The status of your package can be tracked as soon as payment has been confirmed
Soon as we have received the required tax payment We shall forward your package to its destination.
Copyright © 1994-2010 UPS® , Inc. All rights reserved.
Re: Spam regarding parcel delivery
Thu 11 Nov, 2010 9:53 pm
Browser cookies. Alot of those online sites put tracking cookies in your browser so when you return the shopping cart retains its contents. etc.
When you go to dodgy sites they can access them and work out that you've been shopping online.
Often done through dodgy advertising.
Perhaps one of the most evil ones I've seen is facebook, I've seen direct advertising that identifies your profile in facebook and accesses you friends or your significant others profile to presents you with advertising containing their picture from facebook, saying you should buy something because your friend / partner has.
When you go to dodgy sites they can access them and work out that you've been shopping online.
Often done through dodgy advertising.
Perhaps one of the most evil ones I've seen is facebook, I've seen direct advertising that identifies your profile in facebook and accesses you friends or your significant others profile to presents you with advertising containing their picture from facebook, saying you should buy something because your friend / partner has.
Re: Spam regarding parcel delivery
Thu 11 Nov, 2010 10:13 pm
etrangere wrote:Email address:carl-brooks@ups.claims.ir
Tel: 1-678-701 8046
Dead giveaway.
An email from UPS would come from ups.com - Domain names are structured in reverse order: Country then company/organisation then subdomains then further subdomains. In that email address, ups is a subdomain of claims.ir - looking that up on whois shows it has nothing to do with UPS and in fact belongs to some random in Iran:
- Code:
domain: claims.ir
ascii: claims.ir
remarks: (Domain Holder) Amir Ahmadi
remarks: (Domain Holder Address) Amirabad, 11th St., No. 25, 4th Floor,, Tehran, Tehran, IR
holder-c: aa871-irnic
admin-c: aa871-irnic
tech-c: to52-irnic
bill-c: to52-irnic
nserver: ns1.claims.ir
nserver: ns2.claims.ir
last-updated: 2010-10-24
I know international companies have some mighty smart communications systems, but its also kinda (alarm bells) dinky that you are asked to contact someone in Iran via a Vanuatu phone number to pay an illegal trade embargo generated in Spain. Still, I guess some people take the bait anyway...
Re: Spam regarding parcel delivery
Thu 11 Nov, 2010 10:40 pm
and apparently some of those people that take the bait, are helping feed an 80 million dollars a year industry to a bunch of spammers in nigeria!
i saw a show a while back and was saying how some of these spammers are even making more than the somalia pirates, from the comfort of an internet cafe
i saw a show a while back and was saying how some of these spammers are even making more than the somalia pirates, from the comfort of an internet cafe
Re: Spam regarding parcel delivery
Fri 12 Nov, 2010 5:43 pm
If I wasnt expecting a parcel I woulldnt have even looked twice at the email. Upon a closer look not having my name, correct order number, lack of my email address in the "to" box, spelling errors etc all gave it away as a scam which was why I Googled aspects of the letter to be 100% sure. More than anything the timing in regards to me ordering something online was what caught my attention and could be the one thing that could suck people in esp if they were inexperienced internet users.
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