{"id":633,"date":"2010-06-24T09:11:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T01:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.per.sg\/blogger\/?p=633"},"modified":"2015-11-18T10:01:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T02:01:22","slug":"western-union-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2010\/06\/western-union-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Union scam"},"content":{"rendered":"

I received this in my email.<\/p>\n

Hi<\/p>\n

I have been trying to reach you, but your lines are not working.
\nI have sent the\u00a0 $42,000Usd,here are the payment information:
\nSender’s First name——-James
\nSender’s Last name—–Anderson
\nMTCN———-9708977073<\/span><\/p>\n

And i will send same amount weekly until i complete
\nthe $47,000usd. You can check the status of payment by visitting,
\nhttps:\/\/wumt.westernunion.com\/asp\/orderStatus.asp<\/a>?<\/p>\n

Please endeavour to pay $150Usd to the account officer so that your name
\ncan be activated
\nwith the Mtcn above to confirm your payment.
\nWithout this they will not pay you. The $150 USD should be paid to, using
\nwestern union<\/p>\n

money transfer<\/p>\n

Receiver:
\nOSEI EMMANUEL
\nLAGOS-NIGERIA
\nAfter payment you are to send the understated details to the officer
\nE-mail\u00a0 western.unionmoneypayconsultant@live.com<\/span><\/a>
\nTell\u00a0 +234 8079 5447 96<\/p>\n

Sender:
\nFirst Name:…………………….
\nLast Name:…………..
\nAdress\/Country:…………………
\nAmount sent:..$150.00USD
\nMTCN:………………………….
\nText Question: Relationship
\nAnswer: Friend<\/p>\n

Regards,
\nJames Anderson.<\/p>\n

—
\nThis message has been scanned for viruses and
\ndangerous content by MailScanner, and is
\nbelieved to be clean.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The first thing that got my attention is the reference to Western Union. I don’t use them, I have nothing to do them, they have nothing to do with me.\u00a0 With my mental alarm bells ringing, it is no wonder Mr Anderson is not getting any money from me. Nigerian scam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scam mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","tag-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3611,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/3611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}