Sophisticated Canon impersonators ij.start-canon.com

Scams Tech Support Scam
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Scam Number: Unknown
Scammer’s Website or Email: https://ij.start-canon.com/
Additional information about this scam: This is the usual printer setup impersonation scam with a few sophisticated or bold twists. Any search for printer information leads visitors to the website to a paywall, where they are expected to sign up front for a monthly fee by credit card for “services” that are free from the genuine Canon site – downloading drivers and reading product manuals, etc.

Also has an “AI” chatbot that seems to be trained on the Canon manuals.

The payment screen seems to actually validate credit card info, as it rejects spoofed numbers from fakenamegenerator.com.

And the website hosted on the parent domain … wow!

https://start-canon.com/

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On the same IP address 157.173.209.25 is what looks like an abandoned WordPress template site that has an interesting title, “Canon Staging” : https://octaonetworks.com/ .

LOL look at this brazen foolishness: Tech Support Fraud/Scam Prevention – ij.start.canon | ij.start.canon/connect | Canon Printer Driver

(Meanwhile their web-chat scammer is literally named “James from Canon”.)

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Interesting location on this call, I’ve come across this local only 3 other time…
IP Details.103.170.68.245

Country India
Continent Asia
Region Rajasthan
City Kota
ZIP 324001
Timezone Asia/Kolkata
Internet Service Provider (ISP) Radinet Info Solutions Private Limited
Organization Uniqenter
AS number and name AS138277 Radinet Info Solutions Private Limited 
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