419 scam: Money Gram <"www."@soleil.ocn.ne.jp> Attention Dear Compensation Fund Owner.

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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:
- "moneygram" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
- "money gram" (this will cost you money - be careful with upfront payments to anyone you only know through email, especially if they promise you a lot of money. NEVER send money by Western Union or MoneyGram to people you do not know personally - NO EXCEPTIONS! Instant wire transfer services are not meant to be used with strangers because they offer no protection against fraud. That is precisely why the criminals want you send money that way. )
This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
MoneyGram money transfer is completely untraceable and therefore is *not* safe to use with anyone you do not know personally. Along with Western Union it is a preferred method of online criminals to collect money from their victims.
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.
- officemoneygramtransfer@gmail.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: Money Gram <"www."@soleil.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: "Mrs. Jenni Woodall" <officemoneygramtransfer@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 07:19:12 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Attention Dear Compensation Fund Owner.

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Attention Dear Compensation Fund Owner.
How are you doing today hope all is well?

I am Mrs. Jenni Woodall, the person in charge of your Compensation fund sum of $925,000 us dollars.

This is notification letter from MoneyGram Money Transfer office in Washington, DC to you, just to know if you still want to start receiving your fund or for we to returned your payment files to IMF Office, just because of this needed fee???

Note that your payment files will be returned to the IMF within 48 hours if we did not hear from you because this was the instruction given to us by the Benin republic IMF office.

the reason why we need you to send us the needed fee is because we tried to deduct the fee out from your fund but the minister administrator trust fund of Benin republic told us that know one has access over your fund as it have been signed and stamped that know money should be deducted until it gets to you to avoid any misunderstanding because if any one has access to that it will involve you loosing your fund okay

The reason why I sent this email to you is because that the transfer of your Compensation fund will start today if you can be able to pay for needed fee, because its your sweat and for this reason you still have this last chance to claim your fund but only if you can send the wire transfer fee today.

I have already arranged your wires transfer ready for its daily wires to you but failing to do this, I will allow them to have power over your fund and am very sorry if you failed as this is the last chance.

Therefore, get back to me immediately you receive this email today and email your full receivers information to me once again if you really or still want your Compensation fund to be send to you through my office of Money gram Money Transfer but the maximum amount that you will been receiving everyday is $3,500 us dollars until you receive your complete $925,000 us dollars from here.

Am looking for forward to hear from you within 24 hours time from now because you have only 48 hours to start receiving your fund or the files will be returned to the IMF office

Thanks

Regards,
Mrs. Jenni Woodall
Payment Officer.
Money Gram International.
Hialeah, FL 33012 USA.
Email: officemoneygramtransfer@gmail.com
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