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Impersonation — 54 posts

Messages posing as a real company, government body, colleague, or authority to gain trust.

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Phishing: Messages Delivery Notification [Failure] | Fake Held-Mail Report From Your Own Address

· 18 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

You have (11) pending message(s) stopped by the mail server from delivering due to low bandwidth. The report comes from the recipient's own address, the same sender's fourth lure of the evening. It lists invoices, an order and shipping documents without a single sender, blames bandwidth, and carries the same mail login link.

Phishing: Your mailbox is full. | Fake Storage Warning From Your Own Address

· 16 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

You're out of storage and may not receive new emails. The warning comes from the recipient's own address, the same sender's third lure in 83 minutes. It names no mail service, calls the mailbox full while its own figures leave about 40 MB free, and carries the same mail login link.

Phishing: WARNING: [15] Messages Delivery Notification [Failure] | Fake Postmaster Notice From Your Own Address

· 15 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

The delivery of messages was stopped by your domain mail server. The notice comes from the recipient's own address, 39 minutes after the same operator's fake login alert. It names none of its 15 messages, blames a server named after an IP address that cannot exist, and carries the same link.

Phishing: Multiple unusual login attempts | Fake Mail Administrator Alert From Your Own Address

· 15 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

We noticed some unusual login activity with your account. The alert comes from the recipient's own address, signed by a Mail Administrator who never names a mail service. It calls one attempt multiple, dates it two hours after the alert itself, leaves the IP address blank, and links to a page dressed as a mail login on a 17-year-old travel-business domain.

Phishing: Update payment details | Fake OpenAI ChatGPT Payment Declined Notice

· 16 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

We couldn't process your ChatGPT subscription. Please settle the outstanding balance to keep your access active. The notice that says so is signed The OpenAI Team, but it comes from a webmaster address under a web host's temporary site name that no longer exists, names no account, no plan and no card, wears a logo that is not OpenAI's, and sends its payment button through a Google redirect that does not say where it leads.

Phishing: No. TAX/PEN/2026-1422 | Fake Income Tax Department Notice Hiding a ZIP From Scanners

· 23 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

Discrepancies have been identified during the review of your company's tax records. That sentence is almost all there is to the fourth draft of a forged Income Tax Department notice this archive has followed since August. Every section number, office, officer's name and amount that the earlier drafts quoted is gone; the 72-hour clock and the link remain. The link asks for a ZIP archive named like a PDF, on a name handed out under eu.cc, and when the recipient detonated it in a secured sandbox, the server sent back a page instead: Access Denied. Hosting/VPN IP detected. Only real users are allowed.

Phishing: REMINDER: Your Domain <domain> has expired | Fake Squarespace Domain Renewal Notice

· 17 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

This is a friendly reminder that your domain <domain> is due for renewal on 29th Septemeber 2026. The notice that says so wears Squarespace's name spelled with a look-alike letter, comes from a domain registered in May that has no website, gives three different deadlines, and sends its renewal button through a Google short link — about a domain the public registry shows is paid up until 2033.

Phishing: 🔔 Action Required: Storage 100% Full | Fake Cloud Services Payment Notice, Five Weeks Later

· 19 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

We couldn't renew your Cloud storage subscription because your payment method needs to be updated. Five weeks after the copy analysed in August, the same storage-full template arrives again — word for word, subscription number included — with a new sender on a top-level domain that does not exist, a new numbered relay on a new Indonesian domain, a new Google Cloud Storage bucket, and the whole message turned into a single link.

Phishing: Notice from Tax Departmen | Fake Court Notice Resent With the Same Case Number and a Hearing Already Past

· 20 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

COURT NOTICE. Case Number: [ITD/2026/ND/458721]. Hearing Date: September 17, 2026. Time: 10:30 AM. The 4 September court notice sent again from a new Outlook mailbox — its case number unchanged, its link moved to a domain that its registrar has since put on hold, and its hearing set for a time that had passed two and a half hours before the email arrived.

Phishing: URGENT Renewal attempt failed | Fake Cloud Services Disabled Storage Alert

· 21 min read
Jagdish Kumawat
Founder @ Dewiride

We have paused all upload and sync activities for your account. New data is not being saved. A storage-full alert that never names its provider, sent twice under two different stories — URGENT Renewal attempt failed from Billing Support, and Your account has been disabled from Payment System — from two unrelated business domains, with both of its links parked in a stranger's Google Cloud Storage bucket, and an unsubscribe link that hands you to a three-month-old domain asking you to type in your email address.