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Weird new Email Scam (supposedly from) "US Citizenship and Immigration Service"
received email | 4 April 2025 | Vanity

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.


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: email; malware; scam; vanity
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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

1 posted on 04/04/2025 9:49:14 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: LegendHasIt

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.


2 posted on 04/04/2025 9:57:47 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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To: LegendHasIt

Replete with bad grammar, punctuation problems, awkward phrasing, and other tell-tale signs of a foreign phishing scam.


3 posted on 04/04/2025 9:59:23 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: LegendHasIt

Yeah sure, go clicking all over that email and see what happens.

G’luck


4 posted on 04/04/2025 10:03:01 PM PDT by Bullish (I've never seen such morons... Have you?)
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To: LegendHasIt

“ What the heck????? As if I would want to declare financial support for ANYONE from ANY of those places.”
*****************************************

Perhaps those emails were meant to go to ZEEPERS.


5 posted on 04/04/2025 10:03:02 PM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: nwrep

> 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.


6 posted on 04/04/2025 10:06:42 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It’s morning in America. Again.)
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To: House Atreides

>> Perhaps those emails were meant to go to ZEEPERS.

ROFL! You BAD!!!!


7 posted on 04/04/2025 10:10:07 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

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.


8 posted on 04/04/2025 10:17:09 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: LegendHasIt

Hotmail?

Def NOT from govt (.gov)


9 posted on 04/04/2025 10:18:16 PM PDT by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: House Atreides

Heh, indeed. I just posted a new comment on that before I read your comment..


10 posted on 04/04/2025 10:19:04 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Bikkuri
Hotmail?
Def NOT from govt (.gov)

Well, it could be from Hillary. :-)
I think she used a hotmail account for some stuff when she was SoS.

11 posted on 04/04/2025 10:22:55 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: LegendHasIt
YIKES!

Where was the email supposedly sent with ( gmail, something else? ) and were any words misspelled?

Of course it's a damned SCAM!

12 posted on 04/04/2025 10:23:15 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: Responsibility2nd

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!


13 posted on 04/04/2025 10:25:05 PM PDT by nopardons
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Where was the email supposedly sent with

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'.

14 posted on 04/04/2025 10:32:09 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: LegendHasIt
That alone should send up RED FLAG warnings!

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.

15 posted on 04/04/2025 10:47:31 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

Even a lot of (888) numbers work that way too; that merely saying a single word can start ‘a sequence of unfortunate events’.


16 posted on 04/04/2025 11:00:13 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: All

Well, I’m off FR for the night... I’ll answer any more questions in the afternoon. Thanks everyone for reading the thread.


17 posted on 04/04/2025 11:03:37 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: LegendHasIt

Oh yes, that area code too! I should have added that one; thanks for doing so.


18 posted on 04/04/2025 11:04:46 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: LegendHasIt
Good night, pleasant dreams!

You posted a good thread; thanks for the warning!

19 posted on 04/04/2025 11:05:37 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: LegendHasIt
Too late. Your Venezuelan is already in the mail. If you decide you don't want him you will have to pay for return postage at your expense.
20 posted on 04/04/2025 11:06:15 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (May Rachel Zegler and Disney never know profits.)
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