Phishing Scam

Southpaw said:

I wouldn't worry that much. I get them in waves too and have been over the last 10 plus years. Your email address is the one of the least secure details about you out there. Retailers routinely sell your info, not nefariously mind you, but they do. Once that happens it gets passed on and on and on in batches and passed on around the world. Their are places overseas where people sit there with a computer and a list and get paid to send them. Believe me, they have no clue who they are sending it to. I've even seen emails I received where my address is CC'd with a bunch of other similarly spelled or numbered emails in alphabetic and numeric order which tells me they are sending them off an organized list.
At this point 99.9% of mine end up in my spam folder. Are yours coming straight to your inbox? If so just keep sending them to your spam box and then erase them from there. Also, set you email app up so it only shows text and then if you want to see any more contents you can allow it on a case by case basis. What email service are you using?

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MONEYGRAM BENIN REPUBLIC
79 DIVISION STREET
BENIN REPUBLIC,COTONOU 02
WORKING HOURS MONDAY TO FRIDAY 09:00 AM-09:00 PM
MANAGER:ANGEL GARRY.


Our ref: Your $250,000.00 USD


Attention Beneficiary,


Following the concluded independence day anniversary and the promise of the United states President for ensuring financial
equity all over the world, the United states financial council along with the IMF (International monetary fund) and the
ECOWAS security council have concluded your inheritance,contract and lottery compensation of $250,000.00usd (Two Hundred
and fifty thousand United states dollars).


We have been mandated to contact you and inform you of your payment which is to be disbursed to you of $5000usd twice dailyand we have contacted you in this regard to commence your payments immediately, the information below is the information ofyour first payment which can be confirmed by tracking on our website ((https://secure.moneygram.com
/track), the information

of your payment is below:

Money Transfer Control Number (AUTHORIZATION OR REFERENCE)# 60582879
Sender first name:::Carl
Sender last name:::Bowser
Amount $5,000


Note the payment is on hold pending when you send us a copy of your scanned identification and the sum of $158.00 through
any moneygram agent nearest to you,you cannot pick up the funds yet because our commission /transfer charges has not been
paid to us, for this simple reason your name has not yet been activated as the receiver of the funds. All that is required
of you now before receiving your first installment payment is to proceed to the nearest Moneygram Transfer outlet and then request to send $158 USD to transfer Foreign Operations Manager JAMES MOORE with the below information's:

Receiver's Name:JAMES MOORE

COUNTRY: BENIN REPUBLIC

CITY: COTONOU

Text Question: Yes

Text Answer: Yes

Kindly Email us a copy of your identification, direct phone number and ensure your full names is included and the reference number of your payment.



Yours truly,

Mr Angel Garry
Moneygram Payment Officer
Phone 00229 621 66 045
Email Address(angelogarry551@hotmail.com)
Copyright © 2017 Moneygram. All Rights Réserve

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orbitup said:

Just saw you posted that one already. That's what I get for jumping to the end.

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