419 scam: Homeland Security secretary <susanmensah865@gmail.com> Dear Beneficiary

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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:
- "courier service" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
- "courier company" (Courier companies mentioned in 419 scams are always fake. They will have you send money to them, but won't deliver anything. )
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.
- file4021@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Homeland Security secretary <susanmensah865@gmail.com>
Reply-To: file4021@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2022 21:17:24 -0800
Subject: Dear Beneficiary

Dear Beneficiary

Greetings From The Department of Homeland Security United States of
America. Your total funds worth $5.500.000.00 USD will be delivered to your
home address through any company of your choice from the below mentioned so
kindly update us:

We hereby officially notifying you about the present arrangement to pay
you, your over due Winning Prize/inheritance fund which you could not
complete the process of the released of your transfer pin code through the
Digitized Payment System. And you have spent a lot of money and a lot time
sending money to different people just to make sure you receive your fund
and after set and done your received nothing.

We have decided to pay your funds through (ATM VISA Card) This arrangement
was initiated/constituted by the World Bank, United Nation and Bank of
America, due to fraudulent activities going on within the world, The World
Bank, United Nations and Bank of America introduced this payment
arrangement as to enable our Contract, Winning Prize, inheritance
beneficiary to receive their fund without any interference.

The ATM VISA Card was contracted and powered by GOLD CARD WORLDWIDE. The
ATM VISA CARD is credited with the sum of $5.500.000.00 united states
dollars, it is already loaded on the Master Card which you can use to
access your fund in any ATM machine worldwide and we have concluded
delivery arrangement with the below courier services companies and their
delivery time is stated below.

1; FedExrs/$150, iTunes card or buy an Steam card $150
2; DHLhrs/$50, iTunes card or buy an Steam card $50
3; UPSrs/$98, iTunes card or buy an Steam card $98

To enable the delivery proceed immediately today, Note that you will be
liable to pay the delivery fee of the ATM VISA Card with any of the above
courier company of your choice before the delivery will take place to your
destination address, Kindly provide them with the below details in your
response to this email address: file4021@gmail.com let them know which
courier company you would want them to use for the shipment of your ATM
VISA Card to you. kindly reconfirm your delivery address to avoid delivery
your package to the wrong person.

Best regards,
Mr. Chad Wolf
Homeland Security secretary.

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