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Phishing: Action Required: Dewiride technologies private limited Employee Salary Adjustment Contract Document September 16, 2026 | Fake HR DocuSign Notice With a QR-Code PDF

· 20 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

Your documents are ready kindly scan the can QR CODE to review and sign. A salary adjustment contract posing as the company's own HR department, sent from the postmaster mailbox of an unrelated domain, styled as DocuSign in the email and OneDrive in the PDF, with the company's name, logo and mailbox merged in — and a QR code as the only way in.

Phishing: कर अनुपालन की कमी और दंड सूचना / Tax Compliance Deficiency and Penalty Notice | Fake CPC Bengaluru 143(1) Intimation With a ZIP

· 22 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

Intimation under Section 143(1) of the Income Tax Act, 1961, cross-verified with AIS, TIS, and SFT, with a total corporate demand of ₹ 2,73,250 payable in fifteen days. The penalty-notice template's third draft — sharing its reply-to with the 7 September version — now dressed as a CPC Bengaluru intimation, with a fabricated DIN, a demand table that cites a Section 234F fee at a ceiling that was cut in half four years ago, and a ZIP to download.

Phishing: कर वसूली एवं दंड सूचना | Fake Income Tax Department Tax Recovery and Penalty Notice With a ZIP Attachment

· 22 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

Review of your return found under-reported income and undisclosed foreign assets. Refer to the attachment for full details. A bilingual Income Tax Department notice that says nothing about the tax, the amount, or the taxpayer, and defers to a ZIP file in every other sentence — sent from a domain registered seventeen days earlier, through a real-looking government address pasted into the wrong half of the sender.

Phishing: Notice from Tax Departmen | Fake Court Notice, a Disk Image, and a Side-Loaded WeChat Binary

· 27 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

COURT NOTICE. Case Number: [ITD/2026/ND/458721]. Investigating Authority: Income Tax Department, Government of India. Hearing Date: 30 September 2026. The court-notice template's fourth draft, back in English and back on a free Outlook mailbox. This time we followed the link to the end: a disk image carrying a signed Tencent WeChat executable and the malicious DLL it loads.

Fraud: 慷慨嘅捐款 | Fake Schaeffler FAG Foundation Donation of €4,500,000

· 26 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

You have been randomly selected to receive a €4,500,000 donation. A Cantonese-language donation fraud signed in the name of a real German research foundation, sent from a Rio de Janeiro fire brigade's government mailbox, and routing replies to a misspelled Gmail address.

Phishing: कॉर्पोरेट टैक्स नियमों का पालन न करने के संबंध में 2026 का नोटिस | Fake Income Tax Department Court Notice

· 30 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

Court Notice. Case Number: 54973713. Investigating Authority: Income Tax Department, Government of India. Monday, 7 September 2026, 10:30 AM. The Brazilian judicial-notice template we took apart in August, now translated into Hindi with its Portuguese removed and sent from a randomly generated domain instead of a free Outlook mailbox.

Scam: dewiride | Chinese Domain Name Registration Conflict from Kevin Liu

· 22 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

This is a official email. We are the Domain Registration Service company in Shanghai, China. The Chinese domain name registration scam, back for the third time in our archive, sent from a nine-month-old domain with the same phone numbers and the same Shanghai address as the version we dissected in June 2024.

Phishing: कर अनुपालन की कमी और दंड सूचना / Tax Compliance Deficiency and | Fake Income Tax Department Penalty Notice

· 29 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

The tax inspection of your company has revealed irregularities under Section 271(1)(c) of the Income Tax Act, 1961. The same forged Income Tax Department notice we dissected a month ago, rewritten to remove its worst mistakes and pointed at a convincing lookalike domain registered in Indonesia.

Fraud: Re: | Fake MacKenzie Scott Foundation Donation of USD 100,800,000

· 29 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

I am MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos. A Chinese-language donation fraud promising USD 100,800,000 through a foundation that does not exist, sent from a German online shop's info mailbox under a subject line that is only Re:.

Phishing: Final Warning — Immediate Domain Renewal Needed | Fake WordPress.com Renewal Notice

· 21 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

We are contacting you regarding your expired domain registration. A WordPress.com-branded final warning sent from a German mail server subdomain, whose only button points at a throwaway subdomain of an Italian sports academy.