How Could I Possibly Check To See If The Money Is Available On A Walmart Money Gram?

1. Buffy Staffordshire Says

   100% scam.
   There is no job, no church, no donations and nothing legit in those emails.
   There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.
   The next email will be from another of the scammer’s fake names and free email addresses and will demand you pick up cash from Western Union or moneygram. The cash is being sent by victims thinking they are buying a car, working as a secret shopper or as a part of a work-at-home job cashing paper checks and sending the money to you. When those victims realize the car doesn’t exist or the paper check bounced, they go looking for YOU to pay them back. Since those victims are sending the money to YOUR real life name that the scammer gave them, you WILL be paying back those victims, thousands of dollars.
   Since that scammer intends to steal your money, he did not give you his real life information. All you have is one of his fake names, one of his free email addresses, one of his fake stories and one of his paid-for-in-cash cell phone numbers. None of information is going to help your local law enforcement agency track down that anonymous scammer sitting in a cyber cafe half way around the world from you.
   Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his ‘potential sucker’ list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.
   You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.
   Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don’t bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn’t worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.
   Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.
   6 “Rules to follow” to avoid most fake jobs:
   1) Job asks you to use your personal bank/paypal account and/or open a new one.
   2) Job asks you to print/mail/cash a check or money order.
   3) Job asks you to use Western Union or moneygram in any capacity.
   4) Job asks you to accept packages and re-ship them on to anyone.
   5) Job asks you to pay visas, travel fees via Western Union or moneygram.
   6) Job asks you to sign up for a credit reporting or identity verification site.
   Avoiding all jobs that mention any of the above listed ‘red flags’ and you will miss nearly all fake jobs. Only scammers ask you to do any of the above. No. Exceptions. Ever. For any reason.
   If you google “fake Western Union job”, “fraud Western Union scam”, “fake church charity Western Union” or something similar you will find hundreds of posts from victims and near-victims of this type of scam.

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