JL Johnson 
I have recently had a lot of fun taking down SMS spam / fraud / SMSishing bad guys. Based on engagement, you all seem to enjoy it, as well.
Here's a fresh one. Let me teach you how I do it, so you can too.
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This is a fun one because it's #iMessage. Rare in my experience, but seems more common lately.
USPS won't randomly SMS or iMessage you. And they won't send you to some garbage .top URL.
Don't reply to troll. That only confirms you are a target and increases the resale value of your info.
Take a screen shot, and then "report junk".
Because this is iMessage, we can't take down their SMS service. I'll have to teach you that some other time.
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So let's see who their registrar is. I go directly to ICANN for this https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup but you can use whatever service you like.
ICANN says the registrant of this URL is... adadasdadasdad. Seems legit!
They also provide contact info for the registrar. The registrar is the company the bad guys bought the URL from. International laws require them to take reports of fraud seriously. Never worked with gname.com before. Let's see...
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Armed with the registrar's abuse email all we have to do is send a super quick and to the point email with proof of the bad guys using the URL.
So far I've had 100% success in getting the URLs taken down in a day or so.
I have never worked with gname before so now we wait and see.
#cybercrime #FightBack #Spam #Phishing #SMSishing
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Airplanista 🇺🇦@User47 This is all good advice, JL. Would be nice to have a nice clean PDF list of all the registrar’s complaint email addresses. I would certainly report any that I find.
@Av8rdan There are so, so many registrars. Best to pluck the abuse email via ICANN listing.