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·
    1 day 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·
      1 day 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·
        1 day 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·
            1 day 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·
              19 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…

                • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
                  2·
                  10 hours ago

                  I don’t know if this ties in well or not, but many times over the years I have talked with otherwise reasonable people who had already, or were about to, make really stupid decisions, and I called them out as such: “this is a really stupid thing to do” - to which they all responded “are you calling me stupid?” - I never succumbed to the temptation of “well, if the shoe fits…” - truth, and what I said, was: “about this particular decision, yes.” They always had some particular goal in mind which overrode all other considerations in their mind, and they couldn’t step back and see how their goal wasn’t 100% all important overruling all other considerations.