419 scam: MONEYGRAM OFFICE <moneygramtransferbk.@axel.ocn.ne.jp> AVAILABLE TRANSFER

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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. )
- "united state dollar" (this email uses bad English)
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.
- moneygramtransferbk@bk.ru (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: MONEYGRAM OFFICE <moneygramtransferbk.@axel.ocn.ne.jp>
Reply-To: MONEYGRAM OFFICE <moneygramtransferbk@bk.ru>
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 18:20:23 +0900 (JST)
Subject: AVAILABLE TRANSFER

Thank you for using Money GramÂ®. Money Transfer World wide

Dear Client,

Greetings, am very sorry for taken too much of your time at this moment but please try to understand and bear with me as you go through this urgent message,anyway my name is Dr. Justine Richard, i have tried reaching you on mail all this while, but you fail to respond back to me,please be aware that your matter came to my desk which were dated since 28-1-2018 months ago, with the total funds of $450,000.00 United State Dollars, frankly speaking you are very lucky because you are going to receive your first (8) Ref-control numbers of $12,000 USD after responding to our mail, all this while your transfer has been stop because it was under investigation of money laundry by the Ministry of Information and National Orientation and that was the reason your name were among those who were blacklisted but now we have settle your problem and removed your name from the blacklist, so your funds is free for transfer over to you now.

This is your (8) Ref-control numbers of $12,000 USD:

(1)5645-3?63 - $1,500USD
(2)6426-475? - $1,500USD
(3)9635-?438 - $1,500USD
(4)3466-49?5 - $1,500USD
(5)7416-37?5 - $1,500USD
(6)6406-24?5 - $1,500USD
(7)6004-14?5 - $1,500USD
(8)8426-94?5 - $1,500USD

Please do forgive me for taking much of your time for going through this mail which you will conclude by saying that it is just a common thing to you every-day if am not mistaken, we knew that at least you have encounters numbers of similar mails like this before, but please do not mistake that everybody who reach you are all scammed or either a fraudster as well. I agree with you that you have every right to decide not to make any up-front payment if even we do ask for fees/charges from you because of your past scam experiences you had in the pass through all this time,but I want to assure you that we are doing our very best to make sure that we get those people arrested that are spoiling the image of our company or who claim to be our staffs by using different name's to scam foreigners like you,we assure you that they will surely get arrested as soon as we have full information's of their were-about.

But the only thing you have to do now to receive your funds is as easy and simple if only you urge to follow my advise, as a respectable and honest people, we normally gives 100% risk-free to all our customers with a limited payment, due to the up coming event inside our bank, I have the right to penetrate any office's whenever our customer's find difficulties. Please take note of this and see the differences because you will surely testify to your friends, families, partners who had been mocking you all this while, the only thing we need from you is to obtain the (A.R.O.) Authorization Release Order, which will reflect in any MoneyGram Office in your country, stating that you are not a victim or you are not a party of money laundry, the (A.R.O) Authorization Release Order will only cost you the sum of $150 USD (only) remember that this is the only charges for you to pay before your (8) Ref-control numbers of $12,000 USD will be release to you today. You are to send the requested A.R.O. fee to bellow information by means of MoneyGram and WesternUnion Transfer

Receiver Name:.. Anayo Hidozie
Country: Benin Republic.
Question: Bonus.
Answer: Bonus.
Amount: $150
Sender....... & transfer code#.....

Please try and make the $150 usd transfer as soon as possible and send the complete payment details across to me, I hope to hear from you soonest so that we can proceed with your transfer immediately.

Yours Sincerely,

Dr. Justine Richard@CitiBank MoneyGram Department
Hot-line (00) + 234-8-0881-86936
Email: moneygramtransferbk@bk.ru

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