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I got way worse. I was fined for leaving an unattended baggage at the train station for a bit. The fine came through an SMS message redirecting to a domain which I had to whois to verify was owned by the train company…



Couldn't an attacker put in bogus whois data?

Is there anything which validates that the information from whois is actually accurate?


I’m not sure about that. I also searched for other indicators that the link was actually valid.


You left your ID in the baggage?


I left it long enough for it to be discovered but I was around. I wasn't fined on the spot for some reasons and received the fine later.




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