The UK is facing an epidemic of SMS fraud. Scammers know that we're all at home eagerly waiting for deliveries. So they send out phishing messages say

Why do scammers love NameCheap?

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2021-07-01 18:00:09

The UK is facing an epidemic of SMS fraud. Scammers know that we're all at home eagerly waiting for deliveries. So they send out phishing messages saying "Sorry we missed you" or "You need to pay a delivery fee". If you click on the link they send, you'll go to a very convincing website which looks identical to the courier's page.

Whereupon the fraudsters will ask for your bank details, credit card number, mother's maiden name, and inside leg measurement.

There are many complex reasons why this fraud proliferates. But one thing underpins these scams - a domain name and hosting. Over the last few months, the vast majority of the fraud I've seen has come from domains registered by NameCheap.

My friends in the UK's National Cyber Security Centre have released a report looking at phishing - amongst other things. Here's what they have to say about NameCheap:

Figure 1 shows that NameCheap became the most popular host of UK government-themed phishing during 2020.By December 2020 we found that it hosted in excess of 60% of phishing in this category.