Posted on 04/04/2025 9:49:14 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
I just received this email:
From: USCIS Support30166 [iubivlwtd168@hotmail.com]
Subject: Case46178
Online Request to be a Supporter and Declaration of Financial Support.
View document. (links to: https://id-form.departmentimmigration.info/s30MH5gdi) (Obviously don't click, must be to malware)
Due to the April 01, 2025 Executive Order, Securing Our Borders, USCIS is pausing acceptance of Form I-17, Online Request to be a Supporter and Declaration of Financial Support, until we review all categorical parole processes as required by that order.
Use this form to request to be a supporter and agree to provide financial support to a beneficiary and undergo background checks as part of Uniting for Ukraine; the Processes for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans; or the family reunification parole processes. You must file a separate Form I-4283 for each beneficiary.
United States Citizenship and Immigration Service
service number eq4af1ou.
What the heck????? As if I would want to declare financial support for ANYONE from ANY of those places.
And of course the email address is one of the throw-away hotmail accounts, and the link to the supposed document is NOT to an actual government website, although it tries to look like one. and the case number is nothing like a real USCIS case number
Wow. All I ever get are emails from toll agencies threatening me. Despite the fact I haven’t been on a toll road in over a year.
Replete with bad grammar, punctuation problems, awkward phrasing, and other tell-tale signs of a foreign phishing scam.
Yeah sure, go clicking all over that email and see what happens.
G’luck
“ What the heck????? As if I would want to declare financial support for ANYONE from ANY of those places.”
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Perhaps those emails were meant to go to ZEEPERS.
> Replete with bad grammar, punctuation problems, awkward phrasing… <
I don’t know how true it is, but I’ve read that scammers prefer it that way. Folks who don’t catch all the grammar mistakes are easier to fool.
That’s the theory, anyway.
As a side note, it would be easy for the Feds to collect these scam email addresses and phone numbers, then flood them with fake, computer-generated responses. Such a maneuver would put a real crimp in their business.
Some free-lance scam baiters do that now. It sure would be nice the Feds got involved. It would be a cheap way to protect vulnerable folks.
>> Perhaps those emails were meant to go to ZEEPERS.
ROFL! You BAD!!!!
Lately I’ve been getting a LOT of malware link scams (supposedly) from Walmart, Amazon or PayPal that I ordered a new Macbook Pro or an I-phone and it will be delivered ‘tomorrow’. (but those go to my ancient email address that is on some of the email lists that are for sale on the ‘dark web’ for email scammers to buy. This USCIS one came to an email address that is not as widely available.
But that is a well known email scam. I did searches of all the potentially useful keywords from this new email, and so far, the internet doesn’t seem to know about this one (that’s the main reason I started this thread... to get the info ‘out there’. I can’t imagine that any FReepers (other than the Zelenskyy lovers) would fall for “Uniting for Ukraine” or the other criminal nations crap.
Hotmail?
Def NOT from govt (.gov)
Heh, indeed. I just posted a new comment on that before I read your comment..
Well, it could be from Hillary. :-)
I think she used a hotmail account for some stuff when she was SoS.
Where was the email supposedly sent with ( gmail, something else? ) and were any words misspelled?
Of course it's a damned SCAM!
Oh gee...you too? I also get those on my phone’s voice mail. And we haven’t been on a toll road in over a decade!
Well, looking at the Message Source code, it looks like it was originated from an outlook.com program (microsoft), but with a hotmail (which is also microsoft, now) 'envelope'.
Also NEVER answer ANY phone calls with an area code 475...that's a known SCAM code and even saying "HELLO", will get you in a bad way.
Even a lot of (888) numbers work that way too; that merely saying a single word can start ‘a sequence of unfortunate events’.
Well, I’m off FR for the night... I’ll answer any more questions in the afternoon. Thanks everyone for reading the thread.
Oh yes, that area code too! I should have added that one; thanks for doing so.
You posted a good thread; thanks for the warning!
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