419 scam: "United States Postal Service (USPS)" <mrpeterlynch01@gmail.com> CONTACT US FOR YOUR ATM MASTER CARD $3.5MILLION

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- ",500,000" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
- "00,000.00" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
- postalserviceu530@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "United States Postal Service (USPS)" <mrpeterlynch01@gmail.com>
Reply-To: postalserviceu530@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 22:33:42 -0700
Subject: CONTACT US FOR YOUR ATM MASTER CARD $3.5MILLION

Hello.

I am Mr. Louis DeJoy Director general of the United States Postal
Service, (USPS) . We have been waiting for you to contact us for your
parcel that has been registered with us By IMF for shipment to your
residential address. We thought that the sender gave you our contact
details. It may interest you to know that a letter is also added to your parcel.

However, we cannot quote the content to you via email for privacy
reasons. We understand that the content of your parcel itself is an
ATM MASTER CARD and after our scanning of the ATM MASTER CARD it
contains $3,500,000.00, we scan this your ATM CARD due to your
delaying in contacting us, So kindly get in touch with us asap with
your requested information which was used to registered it by the IMF
to our office and also for we to be sure that we are in contact with
the rightful owner of this ATM CARD. Kindly get in touch with us asap
with your full details for security reasons although we have your information.

1]Name--------------
2]Address-----------
3]Tell--------------

Here is your ATM MASTER CARD information. You can't use your ATM card
for now until we deliver it to your home address for a security
reason.

1]ATM CARD NUMBER: 4342-5801-5196-5506
2]EXPIRE DATE: 10/24
3]CCV: 713

For more details contact us through this email (postalserviceu530@gmail.com)

Yours Faithfully,
Mr.Louis DeJoy
Director General of United States Postal Service
Address 5675 CAROLINA BEACH RD WILMINGTON, NC 28412-3629.

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