To my Canadian friends ... 3 weeks from now I will be residing in Calgary for a short while, a very short while even ...

Amazing that Canada is following the bad habbits from the USA and also requires an electronic "eTA" document costing CAD$7.00 for which they have to do nothing, I provide all the work ... times 3.

They also ask stupid questions, but not as stupid as the US immigration services. In Canada they need to know the exact departure time of your inbound flight ... up to the minute. I wrap my mind around it why that is important but such things can only sprout from the minds of a de-brained civil servant, every country has them. They're even being paid to come up with such nonsense ...

But what prompted me to write this is that when I was going through the process of filling out the questionaires everything seemed normal, all the links worked, all the addresses resolved ... up until the payment-page. I was requested to approve a CAD$55.00 payment to "the company" and the red-light flashed on ... it's only CAD$7.00, I know that, and went looking.

Even at first sight I didn't really see it but then it hit: the site had been completely spoofed with 100% identical pages and probably if the innocent non-suspecting traveller paid the CAD$55.00 probably those guys would send the original request to Canada Immigration, pay the CAD$7.00 and keep CAD$48.00 for them. The "customer" would even be delighted about the quick service and never know he/she/it/them had been ripped-off. Clever. And it looked real good and professional.

I even think you can't complain because you had to tick you understood everything and agreed with the payment of CAD$55.00 to "the company" ...

The scammers are becoming real good ...

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Hello Ward Dossche!

** On Sunday 09.10.22 - 11:07, Ward Dossche wrote to All:

To my Canadian friends ... 3 weeks from now I will be
residing in Calgary for a short while, a very short while
even ...

Thanks for the warning. :D

[...] In Canada they need to know the exact departure time
of your inbound flight ... up to the minute. I wrap my
mind around it why that is important but such things can
only sprout from the minds of a de-brained civil servant,
every country has them. They're even being paid to come up
with such nonsense ...

Those were questions posted on-line? If that was the spoofed
site, then it is obvious why.

Even at first sight I didn't really see it but then it
hit: the site had been completely spoofed with 100%
identical pages and probably if the innocent non-
suspecting traveller paid the CAD$55.00 probably those
guys would send the original request to Canada
Immigration, pay the CAD$7.00 and keep CAD$48.00 for them.

Those are "kind" scammers to pay the 7 on your behalf.

But, didn't you check the full URLS of the site you landed on?
That would be a big elephant in the room. If you did this
entirely on a smartphone/tablet, then maybe the URLs are are
probably obfuscated.

The scammers are becoming real good ...

Nah.. we are not enabling full URL view on smartphone/tablets.
This wouldn't necessarily be a problem using a regular browser.

What link did you visit?
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August,

To my Canadian friends ... 3 weeks from now I will be
residing in Calgary for a short while, a very short while
even ...

Thanks for the warning. :D

If you stay away out of Calgary and what's ever south to the US border Oct.29th 1.35pm through the 30th 10am and and the 4th of November 4pm through the 5th around 3pm you're safe. We'll also be visiting Lethbridge AB.

Those were questions posted on-line?

On the official website...

But, didn't you check the full URLS of the site you landed on?

Not in the beginning ... unitl it hit me.

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