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Regionaldirektion fuer Zölle und indirekte Steuern

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Okay this is probably one of the “better” mails that I got in my Junk mail folder.

The mail body #

Sehr geehrter Kunde,

Ihr Post Ag Paket: Nr. CA001550110AT, versandt am 28.07.2023, wird bearbeitet.
Damit wir Ihr Paket liefern können, werden dem Importeur die
Mehrwertsteuerkosten erneut in Rechnung gestellt.
Nach den geltenden Zollbestimmungen ist jede Einfuhr aus einem Land außerhalb
der Europäischen Gemeinschaft mit einem Handelswert von mehr als 22 EUR
unabhängig von der Art der Waren steuerpflichtig *.
* Artikel 134-I und II-1 ° des CGI: GESETZ Nr. 2012-1510 vom 03. Mai 2017 –
Art. 68 (V) Die Validierung des Paysafecard-Guthabens für die Zahlung von
Zollgebühren ist gültig.
Um die Zustellung Ihres Pakets für Ihre Heimatadresse zu ermöglichen, bitten
wir Sie, Ihre nicht bezahlten Zollgebühren zu regulieren, indem Sie die
folgenden Schritte ausführen, um die Zustellung Ihres Pakets abzuschließen:

1. Kaufen Sie einen Paysafecard PIN-Code online (50 EUR)
2. Senden Sie den PIN-Code (16 Ziffern) an folgende Adresse:
contact@bpostpay.com




Grüße,
Zoll Kundendienst

This is by far the best german that I’ve seen so far in spam mails (although it is not perfect).

The mail body source (html) #

<p><strong>Sehr geehrter Kunde,</strong></p>

<p>Ihr Post Ag Paket: Nr. CA001550110AT, versandt am 28.07.2023, wird bearbeitet. Damit wir Ihr Paket liefern k&ouml;nnen, werden dem Importeur die Mehrwertsteuerkosten erneut in Rechnung gestellt.<br />
Nach den geltenden Zollbestimmungen ist jede Einfuhr aus einem Land au&szlig;erhalb der Europ&auml;ischen Gemeinschaft mit einem Handelswert von mehr als 22 EUR unabh&auml;ngig von der Art der Waren steuerpflichtig *.<br />
* Artikel 134-I und II-1 &deg; des CGI: GESETZ Nr. 2012-1510 vom 03. Mai 2017 &ndash; Art. 68 (V) Die Validierung des Paysafecard-Guthabens f&uuml;r die Zahlung von Zollgeb&uuml;hren ist g&uuml;ltig.<br />
Um die Zustellung Ihres Pakets f&uuml;r Ihre Heimatadresse zu erm&ouml;glichen, bitten wir Sie, Ihre nicht bezahlten Zollgeb&uuml;hren zu regulieren, indem Sie die folgenden Schritte ausf&uuml;hren, um die Zustellung Ihres Pakets abzuschlie&szlig;en:<br />
&nbsp;<br />
<a href="https://wkv.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">1. Kaufen Sie einen Paysafecard PIN-Code online (50 EUR)</a><br />
2. Senden Sie den PIN-Code (16 Ziffern) an folgende Adresse:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="mailto:contact@bpostpay.com">contact@bpostpay.com</a></p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><br />
Gr&uuml;&szlig;e,<br />
Zoll Kundendienst</p>

<p>&nbsp;</p>

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Why is this email invalid? #

As from the headers we can see that this was probably a host called universal.at that accepted some email from the webserver (probably using mod_php, mod_cgi or something like that). That host then sent the email to the MX server of my mail provider using ESMTPS. Several mechanism failed (DMARC/SPF), the remote ip address translated into ppp-202.151.182.86.revip.proen.co.th.

Besides all that technical stuff, customs service will never ask for money via email. Usually you get a notification in your letter box that tells you where you can get your letter/parcel and what you have to pay for customs.

I got already a bunch of parcels from outside Austria and they never billed round values like 50€.

If you get mails from users that actually authenticate on their SMTP servers, you usually read something like ESMTPA in one of the first Received: headers. Where SMTP is the protocol, E tells you the connection was encrypted and A means the user has been authenticated. Now you gonna look on which server the authentication took place; the first Received: header of an email from me typically looks like this:

Received: by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA for <dominic@...>;
 Sun, 23 Jul 2023 14:14:27 -0400 (EDT)
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