

canonical is (or at least I think it is) South African
Canonical is British. Headquarters are in London.
The founder, Mark Shuttleworth, is a South African born British citizen, hence the African name for the distro. But it is and always has been British.
I wonder how sophisticated this fraud is? They could have it rush to 50k, and then “catch up” by running more slowly for the next few 10s of thousands to cover the tracks.