Comments on: What is a Moneygram Scam?

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:39:59 +0000

Laura, if you are still there I have gotten something simular in the mail the other day. A letter, in broken english, two money orders and three email addresses to mail it back to. That is, of course, after I cash the orders, evailuate the service of the Western Union office from which I transfer the money, and fill out a short questionairre. I always thought a money order had to be purchased with cash. If this is so then these should be as good as cash, right?

By: michelle guo

michelle guo — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:37:32 +0000

I am a moneygram agent, they took out nearly $1000 from my bank account for no reason and claim it is due to fraud outside money gram trying to evade from the responsibility, and ridiculously claim I authorized the transaction!

By: Fakinlede

Fakinlede — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:21:43 +0000

I sent $200 to my brother 09/24/2011 in Nigeria. Someone other than he collected the money. His bank wants the bank's name where the money was collected in Nigeria. How can I get this name?

By: LAS_Admin

LAS_Admin — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:03:00 +0000

Hey Swamp, good call. Btw, I'm interested in some ocean front property–is it located near Phoenix All kidding aside, hope rings eternal with folks who want to believe in the good of others and human nature–for the most part–makes us want to help others; unfortunately, it pays (literally) to be a bit skeptical most times…

By: swamp rat

swamp rat — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 02:43:21 +0000

Hey J i have a ocean front lot in Arizona for sell want to buy it. I caint belive some one would think about sending money to people they dont know or have never met. A fool and his money are soon departed.lol

By: chantelle

chantelle — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:57:16 +0000

Yes this is a scam. About 2 years ago Nigeria took me for $400. Please be carefull and dont send any money. Why should you have to pay to get a job. If it sounds to good to be true it is.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:45:18 +0000

i was contacted about a job via craigslist. all communication was done strictly by email. i was sent moneygrams and money orders and given lists of names and addresses. i was asked to labels the money orders and i was also sent fedex and UPS labels to affix, and send them out. was doing this without a problem for 3 months. the second time i go to collect my payment for this – via moneygram – i was told i couldn't collect the money and would have to contact the sender. 1 hour later i get a call from moneygram telling me the money is fraudulent and everything i've been doing is fraudulent…nigerian scam.

i see now that the website they gave me for verification 3 months ago megaviewconcepts.com, is now suspended.

the person's email address that sends me all the moneygrams is b_rodney@rocketmail.com — i'm putting this here in the hopes that the next person will google this email address first before taking any work on.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:05:03 +0000

Ah the moneygram scam, I just got 4 of them today. No reference #'s The money orders are duplicates w/the same serial #. The scammers were fairly convincing, good looking website etc. Today I get a call from a guy supposedly from his office and all I hear are Roosters crowing in the background. HaHaHa office chickens!! Beware people, nobody just sends you money, get involved with something legitimate…………

By: admin

admin — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:31:43 +0000

Hi Lori, I can't really recommend a money wire service for you other than to say that in most instances the "big" services are legit–ie, those like Moneygram and Western Union. It's unfortunately scammers who are not associated with Moneygram that use the Moneygram service to complete their scam; I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish, but if you're able to get a money order, you probably can get a pre-paid debit card–though there can be some high fees with those so do your research first–but you may be able to use a pre-paid debit card for the transaction.

By: Lori

Lori — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:55:05 +0000

What is a "safe" alternative to moneygram & how much does it cost to use something else?In this situation I have no credit card & place doesn't accept money orders.Thank you very much