419 scam: "United States Postal Service"<mr.michaelelston44@gmail.com> DELIVERY,,

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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.
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.
- mr.michaelelston4@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "United States Postal Service" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <mr.michaelelston4@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 19:32:12 -0800
Subject: DELIVERY,,

Good day to you, I'm Mr.Michael.J.Elston secretary to Mr. Louis Dejoy
the postmaster general of United States Postal Service (usps). I'm
contacting you regarding your parcel that has been registered with us
for a shipment to your residential address. Your parcel of MONEY
ORDER/ CHECK was registered with us by the UNITED NATION agencies as a
COMPENSATION FUND in helping out people financially this season
because of the scourge savaging the earth (COVID-19), they are
reaching out people via an online email selections they did and
registering the fund as a MONEY ORDER/CHECK with us to be delivered to
any Emerge winner and your email was Emerged as one of the winner of
last month draw. We thought they gave you our contact details, so we
have been waiting on you to contact us for your parcel until now we
decided to contact you so we can get your parcel delivered to you as
soon as possible. It might interest you to know that a letter is also
added to your parcel which we cannot quote to you via email for
privacy rea

Full Address ...................,
Full name ..................,
Phone number............,
Email address .............

And also you can send an email to my below

email address____ mr.michaelelston4@gmail.com

Phone_________(803)274 1107

Note: You have to pay the shipping and stamping fee of $95.00 as it
was not paid, and by so being what has been holding up your delivery.

Yours faithfully,
Michael J. Elston,
Secretary to Mr. Louis Dejoy, Postmaster General of United States
Postal Service(usps).
Office address::5675 carolina beach rd wilmington, nc 28412-362

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