Stalling MoneyGram Michael

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One of the first baits of the year has kicked off quite well. I picked this lad up over on ScamWarners, and have so far just been seeing how much of his time I can waste while expending as little effort as possible. Things appear to be going along quite well so far:

Attention My Dear,

Your first payment of 5000 Is about to be sent today through money Gram transfer You are advised to Contact Dr.Michael Damina with your full information.

such as

Your name..............
Your country...........
Your phone number............
Your adders............

To enable him to send your First Payment of 5000 today.For more information contact Dr.Michael Damina, Telephone number: +229xxxxxxxxxxx. Email ([email protected]) he will keep sending you payment until your total fund is Completed 2.7 Usd.

Best Regards

Dear Dr. Michael -

Thank you so much for your email. Here's the information as per your request:

Your name..............Mary Moonstone
Your country...........America
Your phone number............1 LENNY
Your adders............xxxxxxxxxxxxx West Palm Beach, FL 33411

Thank you so much!

Yours,
Mary

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, Breaking News today, This is to officially inform you that the higher authorities that are in charge of all international transaction have this morning declare that you will receive your $2.700,000.00 through MONEY GRAM Transfer Only as compensation for your past effort and inheritance fund here in Benin Du Republic.

So the arrangement has been made this morning and the Federal High Court Of Justice has signed your MONEY GRAM Transfer Papers and the only money you will pay is $260 for the ACTIVATION signing of it which means your first transfer will start today or tomorrow morning. The daily transfer of your fund is $5,000.00 per day until your total $2.700,000.00Usd is completely transferred to you.

I am here to swear to you that your first payment of the $5,000.00 daily transfer will be on its way today or latest tomorrow morning once we confirm the $260 from you which is for the Federal High Court Of Justice Benin du Republic ACTIVATION signing of your MONEY GRAM Transfer Papers. To show you the truth.

Below are the First transfer payment details which have been inserted into our computer this morning.

REFERENCE NO#: -------- 759851**
Sender’s First Name:------- Dumb
Sender’s Last Name:------ Punk
Sender’s Location:------- Seattle, Benin Republic ( <------ )
Amount sent:------- $5000 FIRST
Receiver's Name: -------- Mary G. Scott

The status of your first transfer payment of $5,000.00 is available for you but you will not pick it until you pay the needed $260 for the ACTIVATION signing of your MONEY GRAM Transfer Papers by the Federal High Court of justice Benin Republic.

So we are here giving you this MONEY GRAM Payment Information for you to send the $260 immediately and your first transfer of the $5000.00 will be on INSTANT release after we confirm the $260 in this office today.

BELOW IS THE MONEYGRAM PAYMENT INFORMATION SEND THE MONEY VIA MONEYGRAM.

RECEIVER'S NAME .... Dumb Punk
COUNTRY........ BENIN REPUBLIC
STATE .......... COTONOU
AMOUNT NEEDED........ $260 ONLY

SENDER'S NAME........
REFERENCE NUMBER.........
SENDER'S COUNTRY.........

We will wait for your mail with the $260 from you and be rest assured that you will receive your total compensation of $2.700,000.00Usd from us because this is the General MoneyGram Head Office here in Benin Republic. Finally, you are advised to call me with this number and stop emailing any office or department here in Benin Republic until you receive your full compensation from us, this is to prevent you from being scammed and for your security reasons. THANKS.

Call with our line.... +229 xxxxxxxxxx
From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Now after confirming the lad is happy and active, we start delaying with useless questions:

Dear Mr. Michael -

Am I correct in presuming that your offices are open during Lent? Sorry if it's an obvious question, I just want to make sure. Thank you.

Yours,
Mary

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, very correct yes our office works during lent.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Dear Michael -

Sorry if I come across wrong, but are you saying there's another MoneyGram Benin office sending out mesMarys like yours? You said "stop emailing any office or department here in Benin Republic until you receive your full compensation from us" after all.

Yours,
Mary

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, it will interest you to know that I am a born again Christian and have sworn never to lie or cheat any of God's creation it's against my faith, I want you to note that we are the only MoneyGram that is responsible for your fund and it's only in our office that your fund is and will receive it from us, also note that I am the only one in charge of your fund so be advised to disregard any mail or mesMary you have been receiving or might be receiving from any other party, I made bold to tell you that they do not have your fund with them we do, they only want to extort money from you so I advised you to disregard it in totality.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Nobody asked if he was a born-again Christian, but that's nice. At least we can question him on stuff later on about his holy faith Anyhow, I ignored for awhile and came back a day later, the 8th of March:

Dear Michael -

No, I haven't been getting any other mail from any other MoneyGrams, you're the only one who has reached out to me.

I just went to the local MoneyGram and they appear to be closed for the weekend. Exactly what ought I to do now?

Yours,
Mary

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, okay just go to any Apple store around and get two Apple gift card $100 each and one single $50 scratch it and a picture of cards after you have finished scratching the cards snap it both front and back and then send me the pictures after you have done that.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Nahhh. I don't play like that. You're MoneyGram. MoneyGram will get money via MONEYGRAM. So I ignored him again for another full day.

He then forgot himself and sent ANOTHER email later that day:

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

BELOW IS THE MONEYGRAM PAYMENT INFORMATION SEND THE MONEY VIA MONEYGRAM.

RECEIVER'S NAME .... DUMB PUNK
COUNTRY........ BENIN REPUBLIC
STATE .......... COTONOU
AMOUNT NEEDED........ $260 ONLY

SENDER'S NAME........
REFERENCE NUMBER.........
SENDER'S COUNTRY.........

We will wait for your mail with the $260 from you and be rest assured that you will receive your total compensation of $2.700,000.00Usd from us because this is the General MoneyGram Head Office here in Benin Republic. Finally, you are advised to call me with this number and stop emailing any office or department here in Benin Republic until you receive your full compensation from us, this is to prevent you from being scammed and for your security reasons. THANKS.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

I replied the next morning, a bit miffed at the little mix-up:

Dear Michael -

Great to hear from you, but I think you're confused. I haven't written to you yet. Also, the payment instructions seem quite ambiguous so I'm going to hold off and wait to send Moneygram formally to the office address you dropped in the email.

Also, I tried calling your phone number, but I got an Indian man on the other end named Adam who told me he's from Amazon, and he's been trying to reach me about my overdue payment, 300 dollars worth. He asked for my email and password, so I asked if he was Moneygram. He said no, so I hung up on him. Thank you, have a great day.

Yours,
Mary

I never bothered to call the number. My line can't handle international calls, and I'm bad at pretending to be a woman:

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, there is nothing too ambiguous there I asked you to do that since you already told me that the local MoneyGram over there has been closed for the weekend that you cannot make the payment again that's why I asked you to send the Apple gift card instead, but there is no problem since you said you will wait to send the MoneyGram instead, meanwhile you can call me on this very number right now, +229 YYYYYYYYYYYY.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Dear Michael -

What I meant is that I don't quite understand why you'd put the MoneyGram info if I'm not using the MoneyGram but never mind now, it's almost Monday anyways and I'll send the payment info then. Have a great day!

Yours,
Mary

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, no problem try as much as you can to send the $260.00 USD today as you promised, also be advised to be diplomatic in discussing this transaction with anybody in other words do not exposed the nature of this transaction until you finally receive your Total fund of $2.7 Million United States Dollars, so if you are going to send the $260.00 USD today and you are asked for what reason just tell them is to assist a family friend.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

That was on Sunday. After that, I went on with life and forgot all about him for awhile and he stewed all day Saturday and Sunday. Then, in his angst, he forgot himself again and tried rushing me because he sent this right afterwards:

Thank you very much for your immediate response, let me have the MoneyGram receipt if you have made the payment.

IGNORED.

Thank you very much for your immediate response, I am still yet to receive the $260.00 USD from you today as you promised to do it today, what's going? Kindly respond to me ASAP.

IGNORED.

IN CASE YOU'VE FORGOTTEN, HERE IS THE MONEYGRAM PAYMENT INFORMATION SEND THE MONEY VIA MONEYGRAM.

RECEIVER'S NAME .... DUMB PUNK
COUNTRY........ BENIN REPUBLIC
STATE .......... COTONOU
AMOUNT NEEDED........ $260 ONLY

SENDER'S NAME........
REFERENCE NUMBER.........
SENDER'S COUNTRY.........

Finally responded to him at 3:08pm on Monday:

Dear Michael -

Thanks for the update email. Actually, I've been stuck in a long Zoom meeting over here today, so I haven't been out of the office since about 9am, except to go and eat some sandwiches and chips that tasted like vinegar. It's really not every day you want to punch a bag of chips in the face. That's that for now.

The Zoom meeting is going on till around four o'clock, and that'll be about an hour from now. After that, there's some regular workday stuff and then after that, I'll be able to send the 260$. Don't worry about things, I'm trying my utmost because I want that money too, and it'll get to you on time today.

Yours,
Mary

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, alright I am looking forward to that.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

I wouldn't call my response IMMEDIATE, but hey, the poor boy's got to believe in something, don't he?

Finally, on Monday night, Mary dragged her slow self over to MoneyGram and got one of those "special" MG slips sent over:

Dear Michael -

Good evening, I've sent the money to the location given in Benin. Due to me never having sent anything overseas before, I took the cashier's suggestion and used the $ecure $end feature that they've got over here in Florida to send the money. Mr. Dumb Punk will have to call the telephone number listed there for the reference number, and they'll give it to him.

In any case, thank you so much and please contact me as soon as that money is in the company's account. I'll check on my email tomorrow morning for an update on when my funds will reflect in my account, and have a great night yourself.

Yours,
Mary

An hour later...

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, Dumb Punk called the number given in that slip it wasn't going through so please I advised you go back there get the reference number yourself and send it to us so that we can proceed, or better still take the second option I give to you, which is to get the Apple gift card as I advised you.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Email.....IGNORED.

Then this came at midnight:

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, I have called the number in that slip you sent but was not going through please I advised you go back there and asked them for the Reference number and get back to me with it.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

A little bit more honest methinks Anyways, I replied Tuesday morning.

Dear Michael -

I am so sorry to hear that the two of you couldn't get through. I'll go up there at lunchtime. In the meanwhile, please give it the good old college try and call the line again for me, perhaps it will change up and work this time. Have a good day (or better day than you've been having) and thank you for informing me!

Yours,
Mary

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, like I said I have tried it many times still not working, so I advised you go back there and insist they give you the reference number and you send it to me so the money can be picked up by the receiver.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Nahhhh......I have a busy Tuesday. Yet again - IGNORED.

He then emailed Mary again this morning, a Wednesday:

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, how are you doing today and how's your family, I hope that all is well with you all? If so, thanks be to God, I am yet to hear from you, please what's going on.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Good morning Michael -

I'm very sorry I didn't get to mesMary you last night. Yesterday when I went to the Moneygram place, I enquired about the thing, and they emailed me a slip. Apparently, someone did call the line, and they got the answers all wrong. I'm attaching the document here. If it wasn't any of your people, who on earth could it have been?? Hoping you'll rectify this quickly.

Yours,
Mary

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, the document you sent has nothing to do with us, I advised you go to another MoneyGram to send the $260.00 USD if not you can send it through RIA.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Finally! We've got more excuses to delay:

Dear Michael -

I've been thinking it over, and I just wasted 260$ of what could've been good egg money on this deal. Is it worth continuing?

Yours,
Mary

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, no you did not waste your $260.00 at all, we are talking about huge amount of money here, we are talking about $2.7 Million United States Dollars, I told you what to do that you should buy Apple gift cards instead but you insisted of sending the $260.00 USD through MoneyGram, believe you should has received more than ten payments buy now, please be advised to follow my directives and let's conclude this, go and get the Apple gift cards and do as I just said.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Mary doesn't bite however. Once burned, twice shy you know:

Dear Michael -

I really am not too keen on these Apple Card thingies. I'd feel a lot safer sending the money to your company's bank account. Can you please send the company bank account so I can do that?

Yours,
Mary

Dumb Pu - ahem - Michael - isn't too keen on sending the company's bank info though:

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, the Apple gift card is easy and safe so there is nothing to worry about it, just go and do as I have told you to and let's proceed immediately.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Now unfortunately for Michael, Mary ISN'T the sharpest tool in the woodshed. What Michael said was "Let's proceed immediately". What Mary HEARD was "Please have another leisurely day and don't check emails". And that's exactly what she'll do.

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Well, we're still stalling the lad but might be getting somewhere:

Michael resent that email on Thursday again:

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, the Apple gift card is easy and safe so there is nothing to worry about, just go and do as I have told you to and let's proceed immediately.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Mary finally replied Friday morning:

Dear Michael -

Like I said, that 260$ I sent to Dumb Punk that got lost in the MoneyGram system was good egg money and I will have to get some more. What exactly do you suggest?

Yours,
Mary

Michael wrote back trying to pacify the woman:

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, at first I want you to note that your $260.00 USD that you sent is not lost you can still go back there to have your $260.00 USD back, so kindly look for.a way to send the $260.00 USD so that we can proceed.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Let's try and aim for a piggy...

Dear Michael -

Okay, you're 100% correct. I will go back to Moneygram later on today and request my money back. When I'm back, please send along the company's bank account so I can send the 260$ there. Thank you for your good advise.

Yours,
Mary

Of course the lad isn't too happy to be giving up a piggy:

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, my good friend Mary Grace Scott we do not operate account in a transaction of this nature we only receive payments through MoneyGram Western Union or Ria, so I will advise you to make use of Ria to send the $260.00 USD.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

I then left him for the rest of the day so that I could think over exactly what I ought to do, and got back to him the next day:

Dear Michael -

I successfully got my money back. In that case, I will try sending the money to Dumb Punk again, rather than get cards, which I don't quite have faith in. I have faith in the banking and post office system. Can you provide a mailing address for Dumb Punk? I need it when I go to send the money. Thanks.

Yours,
Mary

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It got really crazy today. Things are playing along as hoped!

15th March:

Dear Beneficiary Sage,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, my good friend Sage Grace Scott, like I said send the $260.00 USD to the name and the information listed below using Ria, do not send it through MoneyGram again to avoid this situation occuring again, kindly send it through Ria.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Now each time Michael emails me, he always has his emails with directions reading "Below is where to send the Moneygram" with Dumb Punk's details. I haven't included this because it's in EVERY email and doesn't get brought up much. However, I'm finally sick and tired of seeing those same useless Moneygram details that I don't plan to use further in this bait, so Mary wrote:

17th March:

Dear Michael -

But you listed Moneygram info, so why that then?

Yours,
Mary

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, my good friend Mary Grace Scott, the information has nothing to do with that okay you can useRia or World Remit transfer to send the $260.00 Usd to the same name Dumb Punk so is not a problem, just go ahead and send the $260.00 Usd to this name and the information below, using Ria or World Remit.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Enough of this. I'm a baiter kid. Time to make you mess up:

Dear Michael -

Thanks for the clarification. I will need a mailing address in order to send the money. Can you provide one?

Yours,
Mary

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, Mary Grace Scott, just go ahead and send it with this name and the information I listed below.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

NOT what I asked for!

Dear Michael -

That is not enough to send the money, I need some sort of concrete physical address.

Yours,
Mary

This morning, we got the address, appended to the exact same email as before:

18th March:

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, Mary Grace Scott, just go ahead and send it with this name and the information I listed below.

RECEIVER'S NAME .... DUMB PUNK
COUNTRY........ BENIN REPUBLIC
ADDRESS: 419 Yahoo Boy Rd.
STATE .......... COTONOU
AMOUNT NEEDED........ $260 ONLY

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Dear Michael -

This is perfect, thank you so much for the information. You have the day you deserve sir, I'll get back to you once I've sent the money.

Yours,
Mary

He replied:

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, Mary Grace Scott, alright I am looking forward to receiving the $260.00 USD from you, like I told you send it through World Remit or Ria, make no mistake about this.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Sorry, but I intend to make piles of mistakes kid.

In any case, moving on from Michael and letting him stew until tomorrow, Michael isn't the only lad I'm baiting. I'm also baiting a barrister and some lady from the US government. But I make sure to keep my scammers highly organised so that I don't get myself mixed up with baits, and I draw my scammers from the Scamwarners.com site. So when a scammer mesMarys me on my email out of the blue, I know something is up. I got this email out of the blue just like that one day. It was the 17th of March:

Dearest Mary Scott in christ,

Please kindly be honest to me. My Name is pastor. john mike hutu I am a dying man who had decided to donate what I have to the Charities. I am 62 years old and was diagnosed for cancer about four years ago,immediately after the death of my wife.

I have been touched to donate from what I have inherited from my late wife for the good work rather than allow his relatives to lavish my wife hard earned fund. As I lay on my sick bed, I want you to help me in carrying out my last wish on earth which will also be very profitable to you. I want to WILL a total sum of $ 5Million USD to you which I want you to distribute part of it to any charity home for me and the rest for yourself and your family, I will inform you on how to share all.

However i left the funds with a SECURITY SHIPPING COMPANY,please get back to me so that i can tell you,How to claim it from them.

Please for further information contact me ASAP.

contact E-Mail.: ([email protected])

(1) Your direct phone number....
(2) Your complete address ......
(3) Your full name..............
(4) Your occupation and age.....

I will be looking forward to hear from you.

Yours sincerely
Pastor John Mike Hutu.

The funny thing about this email other than NOT being solicited by me, was that the same email was sent TWICE. Now, Michael almost always sends his emails twice. So my thoughts are that this is Michael trying to do two scams at once since the MoneyGram one is taking almost a whole month already.

I replied:

Dear Pastor Mike -

Thank you so much for your mail. I'm sorry to hear about your condition, please reply back soon sir. Thank you, I hope you get better.

Yours,
Mary

He replied this morning:

Dear Mary Scott christ,

How are you doing,i can see that you are a honest person,i now know that if i Die you will help me handle my money very well according to my instructions.But today my sickness is more serious now.The doctor say i will be going in for an operations now.But if you hear that am Dead,i will pass a mesMary to you on how you will distribute my money for me.Please pray for me.

Now read this email below and do according to my instructions.

All you have to do now is to contact the DSP COURIER SHIPPING COMPANY ,enquire from them if my two consignments deposited with them is still pending and safe with them.For safety purpose I did not disclose to them that it is money in their care. I packaged this money in two gold plated boxes as consignment. Bear it in mind that the DSP COURIER SHIPPING COMPANY does not know the content of the consignment because I registered it as (Gold bars ) and not money.Below is the email address of the shipping company contact them now.God bless you amen.

CHECK ATTACHMENT TO SEE MY PICTURE.

WAIT YOUR IMMEDIATE RESPOND TO AVOID DELAY ON IT.

DSP COURIER SHIPPING COMPANY SERVICES
DIRECTOR
MR PAUL MORGAN
[email protected]
PHONE:+234 -----------------

The picture they included was a very sad photo of a man surrounded by medical equipment and apparently being bled. As it involved medical gore of what I presume to be some real patient, the photo will not be included here.

Mary wrote him back:

Dear Pastor Mike -

Thank you so much for messaging me. I'm so sorry to hear all of the trauma you're going through, it really is so unfair. I'll contact the company right away and I'll be here praying for you.

Yours,
Mary

As I was going to bed, I decided I'd check on my scammers, and found this email coming from Pastor Mike's address. By the way, Mary is a WOMAN so addressing her as "Mr." isn't quite right:

SUBJ: MR Mary Scott ( PASTOR JOHN MIKE IS DEAD)

Dearest Mary Scott in christ

How are you ,Are you Mary Scott permit me to introduced my self,i am ms Rita the cleaner in the hospital where Pastor john mike was admited.God bless you amen as you complete pastor john mike wishes in life.

i just want to inform you that pastor john mike give up some few minte ago, when the sickness was so serious at the operation room, here is the masMary he gave me to you.pastor john mike said as soon as you claim the consignments from the company,you should take 60persent of the money to build church in your country,20persent for motherless babies in your country,Then the remaing 20persent for you because of your time wasted.

Again late pastor john mike told me to tell you before he died that you should not let the shipping company to know that is money inside the boxes ok.Because if they know they will never never released the boxes to you again.

SEE MY WORK ID

MAY LATE PASTOR JOHN MIKE SOUL BE REST IN PEACE

HONESTLY AM FULL OF TEARS HERE.

i wait reply
MS RITA

Now, I'm going to give you guys the straight-up facts here for a minute, see. I used to work as a hospital cleaner and under no circumstances would we be contacting any of the family of the deceased. People were dying around us all the time but we never contacted anyone. And as for ID cards, we had none. We wished we did, but no, hospital cleaners don't have ID, at least not at the building I worked at. Moving on!

I sadly couldn't contain the eyeroll factor in my reply:

Dear Rita -

Oh my gosh, oh my goodness gravy Ms. Rita. This is terrible news. I'm so sorry to hear that Pastor Mike has given up, that hurts me tremendously. I was just beginning to like the poor fellow. Can you give me some updates and details on exactly what went wrong before I contact anyone? Thank you so much, please accept my prayers and free internet hugs.

Yours,
Mary

And leaving on that note, we'll see what happens tomorrow!

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Good morning all! Nothing from Pastor Mike or Cleaner Rita so far, but here's the newest from Michael's end:

Dear Michael -

Good morning. This is just to let you know I've sent the money to Ene Ameh.

Yours,
Mary

Of course, like all lads, he wanted the slip:

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, Mary Grace Scott, let me have the slip if you have sent the money.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Dear Michael -

Good afternoon. I'll try and get a scanned copy to you from the library, the office scanner is broken today, I'm so sorry. Please hang on, it'll only be a minute!

Yours,
Mary

New York Minute that is......

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, Mary Grace Scott, I am waiting to receive it.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Thursday, the 20th of March:

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, Mary Grace Scott, give me the reference number and the sender's name of you cannot send me the scan copy.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Like I've said elsewhere, I don't think you could call her response "immediate", but yeah, believe what you want kid.

Dear Michael -

Hi! The scanner should be fixed by tomorrow sadly. The reference number is what number exactly?

Yours,
Mary

At about this time, Michael begins to realize that yet again, someone has screwed up:

Friday, the 21st of March:

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, Mary Grace Scott, how did you send the money in the first place, is it through MoneyGram or Ria which one? Kindly let me know ASAP.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Still talking at cross purposes, Mary takes "how did you send the money in the first place" to mean "how did you send money the first time you sent it?" So she responds honestly and naively:

Dear Michael -

First place I used was Moneygram. Can you please clarify what number you're wanting exactly and where it is on the slip? Thank you.

Yours,
Mary

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I love where this is going. It's always nice to have a great receipt to torment a lad. I've used this in the past and just presented the payment receipt because the clerk kept the other.

Other resources are available in the Help, Hints, and Tips forum.

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Removed full quote of previous post. Think of this as a conversation with no need to repeat what was just said. -bw

Thank you! The idea here is that the client has sent the money via post office and doesn't have the reading comprehension to understand what she's done wrong unless it's fully explained. Any reason could be given for this, she's overbusy, she's sloppy, the lad's English is off key. The goal is to either send this guy running around in circles until he pulls his hair plugs out, or till he softens up and gives us a piggy.

Other resources are available in the Help, Hints, and Tips forum.

Thank you so much for this!!

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We're back with another character going to be introduced soon enough:

Dear Beneficiary Sage,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, Mary Grace Scott, the number is a Reference number that will be in the receipt given to you by the money it will be 8 digit number, so look in that receipt you will see it.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Dear Michael -

Okay, thank you.

The 8 digits on the receipt are as follows: 62131121. Can you please crosscheck this for me? Thanks.

Yours,
Mary

The numbers are a built in insult: 6-21-3-11-21 = F-U-¢-K-U

22nd March, 2025:

The night passed without Michael ever realising he got slapped in the face

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, Mary Grace Scott, I have seen the number you sent to me but the only way I can crosscheck it is if I see the receipt then I will be able to know if it's correct or not, meanwhile how much is the receiver to receive in CFA, get back to us and also send the receipt to me now.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Followed up two hours later with:

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, Mary Grace Scott, this is to informed you that the payment you sent it's not good, the reference number is not correct so check and get back to me.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Clueless Mary replies:

Dear Michael -

This is bad news, but what's this CDA you mentioned?

Yours,
Mary

Michael finally assumes that Mary must've sent through MoneyGram then and finally gets a little angry:

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, Mary Grace Scott, I have told you to send the money through World Remit or Ria but you choose to send it through MoneyGram again, I really don't understand why you cannot take simple instructions, please kindly go and send the money through World Remit or Ria use any one of them with this same information I listed under this mail.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

I took Sunday (the 23rd) off for personal business and didn't get back to Michael or my other lads until this morning:

Dear Michael -

No, no, I did not send through MoneyGram. You told me not to, so I asked and my cousin helped with the sending through RIA.

Yours,
Mary

The cousin got thrown in because I couldn't think of any real excuse, and I wanted to keep the bait alive. Plus I'd been listening to some interesting music and decided it'd be hilarious to toss in some of the characters from the songs. We'll see how things work:

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, Mary Grace Scott, so if your cousin sent it through Ria then ask your cousin to give you the give you the receipt so you can send it to me.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

As you can all see, Michael took the bait very nicely.

About, hm....18 minutes ago, I wrote all my lads the final emails for the day and sent Michael this reply:

Dear Michael -

Okay, I'll consult with my cousin and maybe get him back in touch with you if need be. I already forwarded your mesMary to him, so hopefully he'll contact you if I don't get the chance at work tomorrow. Please bear with me, is there a deadline I need to watch out for?

Thanks, have a goodnight.

Yours,
Mary

Just opened this message for the first time live as I type and now Michael, who responded within ten minutes of the previous email, is verging on pretty mad:

Dear Beneficiary Mary,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, Mary Grace Scott, I hope you know that this delay is not good, for how many day's now we have been on this issue first you said it's scan now it's your cousin is this a kind of joke or what? If you don't want to receive your fund kindly let me know than making jest of me.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Well, we still have to see if we can get him to try his hand at scamming the cousin. If not I'll just pass him onto another baiter friend of mine and see how she can treat him lol.

[Madlib_629]

25th March, 2025:

So here we go. On the morning of today, Tuesday. the cousin, who I named "Ron", reached out to Michael. Ron is a broke crack addict and is low on finances, the combination of these circumstances making him more vulnerable to being scammed. To type in Ron's style, I close my eyes while I type and say whatever the heck flies into my head.

So Ron poked the nest:

Hello, moneygram Michael man, are you there? vPlease get back to me, I'm Sahes' cousom and I hope we can talk? {lease? Thanks.

Ron

And the little bird flew out:

Dear Beneficiary Ron,

I received your mail with all the contents therein were well noted Mr Ron Ascension, yes this is Mr Michael from MoneyGram office Cotonou Benin Republic what can I do for you.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Soi i don'tr EReallt know because this is ... i forgot her name, Sage's business deal, but I helped her send the ,onet and I'm like supposed to talk with you?

Ron

Dear Beneficiary Ron,

I received your mail with all the contents therein were well noted Mr Ron Ascension, okay if you have sent the money then let me have the payment slip so that we can proceed, because she told me that her cousin help her to send the money.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Tes, that's whar happwnd. Qwe sent irt in a nice envelope tro tyou. Didn't you gdt it??

Ron

Dear Beneficiary Ron,

I received your mail with all the contents therein were well noted Mr Ron Ascension, what do you mean by sent it in a nice envelope how? I give her specific instructions on how to send the money, I said she should send the money through World Remit or Ria to the name I give to her she has the information, so if you didn't send it that way then you better get the money back and send it the way I directed her to.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

I made the envelkop very nice and pretty and senty it to the office because that's what Sage anwated and what he got. Really I'm just honestly wondering if youwant anything else because I'm bot sure how you think about these things. Are you okat man>

Orn

Finally, realising he's going to be going in endless circles with the cousin, Ron, who is high out of his mind nearly 24/7, Michael gets back to Sage and is at the point of losing it:

Dear Beneficiary Sage,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, Mrs Sage Grace Scott, one Ron sent me an email saying you asked him or her to mail me, she said she sent what in a nice envelope I don't get it, madam I give you specific instructions on how to send the $260.00 for Christ sake do as I said and not the other way round, I said either send the money through World Remit or Ria, what's so difficult with this? If you can't do it why not go and buy Apple gift card and let's finalize this.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Hopefully I can keep him along for a while. Let's try AGAIN for a piggy:

Dear Michael -

Seeing this stagnation YET AGAIN really makes me upset too. I got a pay raise at work but really can't enjoy it while all this mess is going on. Let me process all this.

Okay. I referred you to Ron because he gave me the instructions on the best way to send the money so he must know what he's talking about. Exactly what all went wrong? Like I've said before, if you guys can accept a direct deposit to the company bank account, I'll be happy to do it. Please get back to me. Thanks, have a good night.

Yours,
Mary

Let's hope tomorrow has some more rationality and agreement between our characters, all three of them now, counting the lad.

[Madlib_629]

Continuing with this nonsense despite feeling a bit worn down on ideas:

Dear Beneficiary Sage,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, Mrs Sage Grace Scott, madam if you have followed my directives as I give it to you by now we would have finalized this whole thing, if you can't send the $260.00 the way I directed you to do it which is either using World Remit or Ria then go and buy me 2 Apple gift card single $200 and single $50, then send it to me, I attached the picture of the Apple gift card for you to know what am talking about.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Dear Michael -

Exactly what do I do with these Apple Cards? I've never used this method to pay for a single thing to be open and honest with you.

Yours,
Sage

Dear Beneficiary Sage,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, Sage Grace Scott, all you need to do is to go to any Apple store around you and get the Apple give card, single $200 and a single $50. Then where the code is there is a seal there just remove the seal and you snap the Apple gift card with your phone make sure the picture is clear enough, then you snap both the front and the back and then send me the pictures just like I did send you that sample, make sure non other person sees the card, after you sent me the card I will now tell you what to do with it.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

27th March -

Dear Michael -

Before I go and get any Apple Cards, do you think it'd hurt at all to just try the bank transfer method? No business I've ever worked with wanted Apple Cards. Thank you in advance.

Yours,
Sage

Dear Beneficiary Sage,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, Sage Grace Scott, I want you to know that I am the one in charge here and I cannot lie or deceive you not at all, if it will not work there is no way I will ask you to do that, so kindly go to the store get the 2 Apple Gift Card $200 and single $50 then look at the back you will see the code it's sealed, just remove the seal then you snap it front and back making sure you get the codes very clear while taking the pictures, and then you sent me the pictures after taking it, after then i will now tell you what to do with the card.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

He began repeating emails here:

Dear Beneficiary Sage,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, Sage Grace Scott, all you need to do is to go to any Apple store around you and get the Apple give card, single $200 and a single $50. Then where the code is there is a seal there just remove the seal and you snap the Apple gift card with your phone make sure the picture is clear enough, then you snap both the front and the back and then send me the pictures just like I did send you that sample, make sure non other person sees the card, after you sent me the card I will now tell you what to do with it.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

28th March -

Dear Michael -

All right, I'll try and do that, but if this doesn't work, can we please try direct deposit?

Yours,
Sage

Dear Beneficiary Sage,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, Mrs Sage, it will work as long as you did according to my instructions and directives, so kindly do as I told you.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Feeling tired of this circular baiting and having other lads to focus on, I let him stew in his own juices till the 31st:

Dear Michael -

Good morning. I'll get the cards and see how things work out.

Yours,
Sage

I left the door of timing open, I might get back to him today though.

Dear Beneficiary Sage,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, Mrs Sage Grace Scott, just do as I asked you and have directed you to do and everything will be done perfectly without any problem.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

Yesterday, Michael wrote yet again:

Dear Beneficiary Sage,

Thank you very much for your immediate response, Mrs Sage Grace Scott, how are you doing today and how's your family, I hope that all is well with you? Madam what is going on up till now I have not received the card's from you, please kindly get back to me.

From MONEY GRAM Transfer Head Office Benin Republic
Manager. Mr. Michael

I'll probably just do a dolla chop and if he doesn't take it well, move on. Considering I've got about seven lads on all at once, Michael is becoming a burden. Any tips are appreciated!