NameCheap's email hacked to send Metamask, DHL phishing emails

I wonder whether that type of comment is in line with Hacker News Guidelines.

In any case, blaming or demeaning scam victims (what you call "suckers" and "poor souls") only adds to the psychological damage that those people experience. There are plenty of studies, recommendations and campaigns on this issue. For example, the UK's Financial Conduct Authority has a whole section in their website https://www.fca.org.uk/scamsmart and have been running TV ads to help protect pensioners.

The clues in the Metamask and DHL phising emails may have been obvious to you and many other Hacker News readers. I received them and quickly noticed they were phising messags. However, having the skills to spot (and stop) this type of messages doesn't mean we are always able to do it. A recent blog post by Kev Quirk, an infosec expert, is a case in point https://kevquirk.com/i-was-nearly-phished/

Untitled Note Hello XXXXX,

We are contacting you from the Namecheap Legal and Abuse department regarding your “XXXXX” Namecheap account.

We are in receipt of a copyright infringement notice pursuant to 17 U.S.C. §512 of the Copyright Act, requesting that we disable allegedly infringing material that appears on a domain hosted in your account (“Domain”):

xLINKSx

As a hosting service provider, Namecheap complies with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”). We would like to help you avoid any service interruption. Please review the DMCA notice that we have included in this communication.

If you do not have the authorization to host the alleged disputed content, and if you are not authorized to use the disputed content, you will need to remove the content within 72 hours, or we may be required to suspend your hosting account under DMCA guidelines.

In order for us to consider a case resolved, the reported link(s) is to show the '404 Not Found' error/suspended page or redirect to the main page of the website.

If you believe that the identification of this infringing content is in error, we suggest that you contact the reporting copyright owner to resolve the matter. If the reporting copyright owner agrees there is a mistake, ask them to email Namecheap at dmca@namecheap.com.

If you are not able to come to an agreement with the reporting copyright owner or if you disagree with the copyright claim, you may submit a DMCA Counter-Notice to Namecheap within ten (10) business days of the date of this email. The Counter-Notice must comply with the requirements of the DMCA and must contain the following points:

1. Your contact information, including name, address, and telephone number, as well as facsimile number and email, if available;

2. A statement that, under penalty of perjury, you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled;

3. Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled, and the location at which the material had appeared before it was removed or access was disabled;

4. A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the United States District Court in which the address you provide is located, or if your address is outside the United States, for the judicial district of California;

5. A statement that you will accept service of process from the person who provided the initial notice or an agent of that person;

6. A physical or electronic signature by you or your agent.

The DMCA Counter-Notice should be sent either via this ticket by replying to our notice or to Namecheap.com Attn: Legal Department, 4600 East Washington Street, Suite 305, Phoenix, AZ 85034, USA, Facsimile:

Once a valid DMCA Counter-Notice has been submitted, Namecheap would provide a copy of the Counter-Notice to the reporting copyright owner. In addition, the DMCA requires that you remove the disputed content for at least ten (10) and not more than fourteen (14) days from when the Counter-Notice was served. Thus, Namecheap will advise the complaining party that the listing will be reinstated within ten (10) days and will remain so unless we hear from the reporting copyright owner that he or she has filed an action against you under the DMCA in a court of competent jurisdiction for copyright infringement and is seeking a court order to restrain you from publishing the disputed content.

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Not everything is a narrative and not every omitted fact or forgotten nuance visible from a perspective of a local is "apologism". Back again, kinda hard to act friendly when people are so systemically discriminating against anything that doesn't correlate with their impressions.

What is so wrong with my comment history that you are now accusing me of a thoughcrime? It's just that your comment history is also full of, let us call it "opinionated", arguments, but I'm not acting that you are a worse person than me. Why are you acting like you are a better person than me I wonder?