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Scam Money Transfers -
Fake Grants
Example - EU Humanitarian Grant
Special EU Programmes Body, European Union House
The "EU Humanitarian Grant" is another simple AFF scam - they
will send you a counterfeit check (it doesn't matter HOW real it looks - it is a
fake, fraud, scam, counterfeit!). You cash it, and send the scammers part
of it BACK (to cover "fees") and then use the rest of the "grant".
Except, they will have you send the money to to them via an
instant and irretrievable method (Western Union or Money Gram) that they can
pick up at any WU office worldwide, and you will be left with a check which will
bounce a week or so later (it does take that long to go through the U.S. federal
banking system) and then you will be out the amount you wired back to them (and
any you spent). And possibly charged with passing counterfeit checks. And
the scammers are gone, never to be seen again, and extremely unlikely to be
caught.
If you need tangible proof, ask yourself this: why would
an legitimate organization offer a huge grant to YOU, out of the blue, and ask
you to reply to a free email address, like weboffice, yahoo, hotmail, aim,
excite, etc. (which ANYONE could get)? Wouldn't an organization write you
from its own email? For example, any government would have an email
address that ends in ".gov". Prinate companies, would have their own
domain, with a website like "www.microsoft.com"
and email addresses like joe.blow@microsoft.com
not
microsoft_special_grants@yahoo.com
See this page for
a step by step explanation of the scam.
We've highlighted a few of the more obvious clues to the scam
below in the actual scam email:
Example of the EU Humanitarian Grant scam:
From: eurofundgrant [mailto:
notify@weboffice.com
] On Behalf Of European Union Grant
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 12:40 AM
To: mrichardson@uptowncolleagues.com
Cc: mrichardson@ffvf.org
Subject: EU Grant Update
EU Humanitarian Grant
Special EU Programmes Body
European Union House,
Castle Meadow Court,
Dublin Road,
Monaghan.
United Kingdom.
Dear Grantee,
Re: CONFIRMATION OF EU HUMANITARIAN GRANT.
I have been directed to inform you that your Humanitarian Grant has
been validated by the awards committee in charge of grant
validation. A total sum of 1,923,738 Euros has been approved to be
released to you as your grant (please, download and read the
attached document). The payment committee has also been involved in
facilitating the payment of your grant through securing of final
clearance from the UK Debt Management Office.
Please, note that the payment committee is presently in the process
of assisting you meet with the financial requisites of the UK Debt
Management Office, which is analyzed below for a better
understanding:
The UK Debt Management office has requested that you immediately
contact your bank to setup a Brokerage/Trading account for the
purpose of payment of your grant funds. This account is to be
utilized specifically for any transaction involving your
humanitarian grant. In line with the recommendation above, I wish to
strongly advise that you make prompt arrangement to setup a
Brokerage/Trading account.
The humanitarian grant payment committee is presently making
arrangement to send you fund to enable you meet-up with all
financial requirements of the UK Debt Management Office. It is now
officially required that payment of fees must be effected before
your grant would be cleared for payment to you by the UK Debt
Management Office. In line with this arrangement, the EU
Humanitarian Grant payment committee will send you fund to enable
you make payment of all accruable fees,
the payment committee will
be providing funds for you to pay such fees, through an affiliate
financier. Funds required by you to pay fees will be provided
by the grant payment committee. You are not required to use your
personal funds to do so.
The required fees are as
follows:
Tax: 128,025.07 Euros
Insurance: 75,194.26 Euros
Anti-terrorist clearance: 2,583.12 Euros
Filing charges: 91,044.33 Euros
Stamp duty: 38,009.40 Euros
TOTAL: 334,856.18 Euros
The affiliate financier will
send to you a total sum or equivalent sum of 334,856.18 Euros to
enable you pay all the fees required by the UK Debt
Management Office through your Brokerage/Trading account. Your total
grant fund (1,923,738 Euros) will be released to you in 72Hours
after fees payment is confirmed by the UK Debt Management Office.
The Humanitarian Grant is awarded to you to enable you upgrade your
existing charitable organization or NGO. If you do not have a
charitable organization or NGO, you are required to utilize the
grant fund to setup a Children’s Home, which will cater for the
needs of children (health, education and other material needs). This
Children’s Home is required to act as a support center for quick
response in time of needs. The EU Humanitarian Grant must be open to
inspection from time to time to ensure that you are using the grant
fund in line with official guidelines, which will made available to
you as soon the grant fund is released to you. You must make
necessary contribution to the guidelines by streamlining the
utilization of the fund to tally with the physical structures and
facilities available in your locality.
Additional funds will be made available to you/your organization as
needs arise. These needs will be communicated to the EU Humanitarian
Grant by the supervising agents who will be in constant touch with
you.
You must send feedback and any query to my office most urgently. You
should feel free to request any information you need.
Take note:
The European Commission grants covers one or more of the following:
research, education, health, consumer protection, protection of the
environment, humanitarian aid, professional efficiency, etc.
The aim of the Humanitarian Grant is to aid the establishment of
quick reach centers in case of emergency needs in order to fortify
the United Nations millennium development goals through utilization
of services by already established humanitarian agencies and those
to be established by this grant (both private and public.) The areas
of focus by the United Nations millennium development goals are:
* to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
* to achieve universal primary education
* to promote gender equality and empower women
* to reduce child mortality
* to improve national healthcare
* to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
* to ensure environmental sustainability
* to develop a global partnership on development.
The EU through various grant programs is trying to achieve the
millennium development goals by focusing on the following areas:
Trade and development, Regional cooperation, Poverty-reduction
policies to support health and education, Transport infrastructure,
Food security and sustainable rural development, Institutional
capacity-building, good governance and the rule of law.
The grant is required to be utilized for the establishment of new
charity or funding of charitable programs already in place. No
repayment of the grant is required. Further funding of the program
could only be done by the EU upon evaluation for need for further
funding after a year of this grant award.
Further enquiry can be obtained via the following contact:
Awards Committee,
EU Humanitarian Grant
E-mail: eugrantfund@
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