Scam Tip Report #89250 - E-mail Scam - Type: Nigerian 419


Scam ReporterScam Tips Received
Lazy Love
Granbury, TX, United States
2018-02-14 10:27:27
Nigerian/419 Scam
1
E-mail Scam - Type: Nigerian 419 
 Scammer
  Information
Name:
Mr. Richard Maxwell, John Fleming
Email Address:
WWW.@sage.ocn.ne.jp | moneygramoffice140@yahoo.co
Scam Website:
Country of Scam:
United States (US)
When I first looked at this e-mail I thought "Just another scam." But then something calling itself a "Money Reference Number" caught my eye. so I decided to look at it a bit more. When I hovered over the link to the website, my screen got white washed and displayed a message saying
"Suspicious link
This link leads to an untrusted site. Are you sure you want to proceed to secure.moneygram?" So I backed away from that and looked up the MoneyGram Tracking website and entered the number and the senders last name. Low and behold, it actually pulled up a report for a money transfer that was in "Ready to be Picked Up" status. For a moment I was a little surprised. But then I noticed that the report had a date on it of 04/21/2017. That seemed to be a little fishy but I still printed out the report since I'm going to the store in a couple of days and will have a good opportunity to conveniently check it out. The store where has a MoneyGram service desk in it so it won't be out of my way and I can be there when they look it up and ask them questions if I need to.For now I haven't done anything with the e-mail except put it in a folder in my e-mail server. I also eventually found out that the link on the e-mail led to a dead website. And I guess if the money transfer turns out to have a positive outcome I'll have to come back here and update this post.

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