I've been getting a lot of those "your parcel couldn't be delivered" phishing attacks lately and if you're a human with a phone, you probably have been too. Just as a brief reminder, they look like this: These get through all the technical controls that exist at

From 2024, but funny to read…

What makes this situation so ridiculous is that while we’re all watching for scammers attempting to imitate legitimate organisations, FedEx is out there imitating scammers!

  • alsimoneau@lemmy.caEnglish
    61·
    21 hours ago

    I’m in Canada, I purchased something from the US shipped with DHL.

    They did not send a text. They sent a WhatsApp‽

    Plus, they made me pay import fee on the value of the listed items instead of on the price I payed (there was a 40% discount).

    • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
      81·
      20 hours ago

      they made me pay import fee on the value of the listed items instead of on the price I payed (there was a 40% discount).

      All this discount / special deal complexity needs to stop. Now the tax-men are scamming us declaring everything to be taxable at the retail rates when nobody pays the retail rates.

      One price, for everybody, all the time. One tax rate, for everything, all the time.

      • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        19 hours ago

        One price, for everybody, all the time. One tax rate, for everything, all the time.

        One Price to rule them all, One Currency to find them,
        One Tax Rate to bring them all, and in the shipping bind them
        In the Land of Canada where the Mooses lie.

          • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            13 hours ago

            LOL, I know it’s not what you mean at all, but your answer gives me the vibes of “so fuck it, let’s all vote for Sauron”. Even though I know that’s not what you mean at all.

            I guess the ONLY good news is that fascism genreally is stupid. (Which is sad considering how stupid they are and yet still manage to do so much damage. I guess democracy and the general public are that much stupider.)

            • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
              2·
              7 hours ago

              fascism genreally is stupid

              Strange thing about sociology / political games: stupid works.

              In the runup to world war II both the UK and USA were studying Fascism as a potential way of “getting more” from their populations to compete better in the coming conflicts…

    • smeenz@lemmy.nzEnglish
      1·
      15 hours ago

      Why do so many people seem to think that paid is spelled as payed?