Scam Money Transfers - Fake Grants

Scam Money Transfers - Fake Grants
They have a check for you; just pay their 10% commission!

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Here's a variation on the basic scam money transfer email.  You received a a check in the mail from a company, foundation or government official who says you "won" a grant, or they can obtain a free grant for you; or there may already be a check / checque enclosed, of which you are supposed to return 10% to them (at this point you should be asking yourself, why they didn't just keep the 10%?)

If it isn't obvious, we'll say it for you: this is a complete scam and fraud.  In some cases, the alleged organizations (like the United Nations or Microsoft) do exist and may be legitimate.  Don't let that fool you.  The scammer has nothing to do with them; the email and the grant are all nonsense. If you believe that there are organizations randomly handing out money like this, then we fear you may have been scammed already.

Any time you search in Google on a presumably established company and you find nothing, or only blogs questioning whether it is a scam, and the Better Business Bureau either has nothing about them or it is very negative, and it sounds implausible or too-good-to-be-true... you ought to just move on!

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Examples of actual scam letters:

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