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"Western Union and MoneyGram" Compensation Scam

Western Union and MoneyGram Compensation Scam

If you have received fake "Western Union and Money Gram Office" compensation emails like the one below, please do not follow the instructions in them. This is because the fake emails are being sent by online scammers who are attempting to trick their victims into sending them money for fake a compensation.

Remember, the FBI, Western Union or MoneyGram will never ask you send money or personal information in order to receive a compensation.

A "Western Union and Money Gram" Compensation Scam

From: Mr Glen Moore <print@testmail.finma.com.tw>

Sent: Friday, May 24, 2019 8:46 AM

Subject: U.S.250,000.00) has been AWARDED to you

Dear Beneficiary,

After proper and several investigations and research at Western Union and Money Gram Office, we found your name in Western Union database among those that have sent money through Western Union and this proves that you have truly been swindled by those unscrupulous persons by sending money to them through Western Union/Money Gram in the course of getting one fund or the other that is not real.

In this regard a meeting was held between the Board of Directors of WESTERN UNION, MONEYGRAM, the FBI alongside with the Ministry of Finance, As a consequence of our investigations it was agreed that the sum of Two Hundred And Fifty Thousand United States Dollars (U.S.250,000.00) should be AWARDED to you out from the funds that The United States Department of the Treasury has set aside as compensation payment for scam victims.

This case would be handled and supervised by the FBI. We have submitted your details to them so that your funds can be delivered to you. Contact the Western Union agent office through the information below:

Contact Person: Glenn Moore..

Address: Western Union Post Office,

Email: glenmoore666610@gmail.com

Yours sincerely,

James Robinson.

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Apr 3, 2021 at 12:27 PM by
"Western Union and MoneyGram" Compensation Scam
an anonymous user from: Orange, Orlando, Florida, United States

I fell for his scheme. He hated Western Union so I had foolishly sent him money. He supposedly worked for American airlines, but not true. He keeps leaving the country to workat airports in europe, but not true

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Dec 22, 2020 at 9:47 AM by
"Western Union and MoneyGram" Compensation Scam
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"From: "From Western Union ..."
Date: December 21, 2020 at 10:59:36 PM MST
To: Undisclosed recipients:;
Subject: Notification From Western Union/Money Gram ...
Reply-To: adamfletcherpaymentcentre619-gmail.com

Dear Beneficiary,

After proper and several investigations and research at Western Union and Money Gram Office, we found your name in Western Union database among those that have sent money through Western Union and this proves that you have truly been swindled by those unscrupulous persons by sending money to them through Western Union/Money Gram in the course of getting one fund or the other that is not real.

In this regard a meeting was held between the Board of Directors of WESTERN UNION, MONEYGRAM, the FBI alongside with the Ministry of Finance, As a consequence of our investigations it was agreed that the sum of Five Hundred And Fifty Thousand United States Dollars (U.S.550,000.00) should be AWARDED to you out from the funds that The United States Department of the Treasury has set aside as compensation payment for scam victims.

This case would be handled and supervised by the FBI. We have submitted your details to them so that your funds can be delivered to you. Contact the Western Union agent office through the information below:

Contact Person: Adam Fletcher ...

Address: Western Union Post Office,

Email: adamfletcherpaymentcentre619-gmail.com

Yours sincerely,
James Robinson."

Here is another scam.

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Feb 27, 2020 at 12:24 PM by
"Western Union and MoneyGram" Compensation Scam
an anonymous user from: Theodore, Alabama, United States

I just received a similar message from Todd Jarvis at toddj7603-gmail.com. DO NOT give people you don't know, sometimes even people you do know, any private information!

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Nov 23, 2019 at 9:13 AM by
"Western Union and MoneyGram" Compensation Scam
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THIS ONE IS SO EAGER TO CON ME THEY SENT THREE IDENTICAL EMAILS

"From: Inspector Mohammed Adamu
Sent: 23 November 2019 05:52
Subject: NOTIFICATION FROM POLICE VERY URGENT..

Police Command Headquarters
Address: Garki 2, Abuja
Motto: Fighting Faud In Africa
Email: headcommand11-daum.net

Congratulations My Dear

This notification email is coming to you from Police Command Headquarters and please immediately you receive this message do let us know by responding back, because we need to carry on with this important work accordingly, we are writing to let you know that we have three gentlemen arrested in the Western Union/Money Gram yesterday name Eze John and Augustine Oge also fake Diplomat, and one of them came from Accra-Ghana and through our investigation we discovered your email address from one of them, which proved that they have scammed you before, The fact is that one of them made us clear that they did scammed you.

Please this office don't have much time for this issue for now. As you can see, we are very busy based on the mandate given to us by the present Government to arrest most of this hoodlums who have engaged themselves in scamming foreigners. be kind enough to reach us with all your contact details , you are also advised to send down your office address, your phone number and the list of amount you have spent to this internet scammer’s here in Africa so far, first thing tomorrow morning we will lead them to court and from the court they will be sent to jail and court will reverse back all your money you have lost in the past including the recovered money/cars properties.

These individuals in our custody have confessed they have other syndicates communicating and scamming people in other parts of the world like, USA, Canada, Europe and Asia. Desist from any suspicious emails or phone calls from any of these places and report such to us.

You are hereby advised to email us back immediate with the needed details, including the amount they collected from you, if you don't know the exact amount you have spent under internet scammer's control, do advise us with your past experience with those scammers, but if you don't know the specific amount you have spent, do tell us that you don't know the amount so that the court will charge the Countries how much they will pay you as your re-Compensation. Please all we need is the truth and if you never spent any money to the scammers just make us clear.

We wait to have the details from you as soon as you get this mail. On what ever happened at the Court tomorrow, we will let you know. you can reach us any time, please don't forward this email to any person from Africa to avoid them using it to do their bad work on the name of West Africa Interpol Service please.

Thanks,

Inspector Mohammed Adamu
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP)
F.C.T. Police Command Headquarters"

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Nov 19, 2019 at 10:09 AM by
"Western Union and MoneyGram" Compensation Scam
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"From: OFFICE FILE
Date: November 18, 2019 at 8:18:43 AM MST
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN!!!
Reply-To: fundsalert2018-gmail.com

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN!!!

This is to inform you that our delivery agent Mr. John Kante will arrived Huntsville Alabama
International airport with your compensation in 2 days for the delivery of your ATM package worth $2.7Million United State Dollars
Please you have to apply now and receive your compensation fund at the International airport
With immediate Affects, or any address or International airport of your chosen

Delivery Agent Contact Information Below
Names...John Kante (Delivery Agent)
Cell... 1(251)276 2711
Email... agentoffice02-gmail.com
Note... you must be on the same page
With the delivery agent person, let that be your primaries priorities,

Best Regards
Rev. Pastor JACOB MADU
Western Union Chief Operators
westernuniondirectorpastorjacobmadu-mail.com"

Here is another scam.

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Oct 28, 2019 at 8:17 AM by
"Western Union and MoneyGram" Compensation Scam
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Here is another scam
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: From Western Union ....
Date: Sat, Oct 26, 2019, 8:44 PM
Subject: Western Union/MoneyGram Compensation Fund For Scam Victim...

Dear Beneficiary,

After proper and several investigations and research at Western Union and Money Gram Office, we found your name in Western Union database among those that have sent money through Western Union and this proves that you have truly been swindled by those unscrupulous persons by sending money to them through Western Union/Money Gram in the course of getting one fund or the other that is not real.

In this regard a meeting was held between the Board of Directors of WESTERN UNION, MONEYGRAM, the FBI alongside with the Ministry of Finance, As a consequence of our investigations it was agreed that the sum of Two Hundred And Fifty Thousand United States Dollars (U.S.250,000.00) should be AWARDED to you out from the funds that The United States Department of the Treasury has set aside as compensation payment for scam victims.

This case would be handled and supervised by the FBI. We have submitted your details to them so that your funds can be delivered to you. Contact the Western Union agent office through the information below:

Contact Person: Adam Fletcher ...

Address: Western Union Post Office,

Email: agentadamfletchersoffice-gmail.com

Yours sincerely,
James Robinson.

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