An email from info @info.com (Mr. Gerrod Rodgers ) claiming to be from The Google Foundation / UN / EU. And he wants to notify me that I have been chosen by the board of trustees as one of the final recipients of a cash grant.
“They are giving out a grant to 10 lucky recipients each year. These specific grants will be awarded to 20 lucky international recipients worldwide; in different categories for their personal business development.”
“Based on the random selection exercise of internet websites, you were selected among the lucky recipients to receive the grant award sum as charity grants from the Google Foundation, EU and the UN in accordance with the enabling act of Parliament. (Note that all beneficiaries email addresses were selected randomly from over 500,000 Internet websites in which you might have purchased something or sign up from).“
Clearly this is just rubbish. Claiming to be from Google and the UN and the EU is ridiculous.
It says you are required to contact the Google Foundation Executive Secretary (the email address is specified but it’s just a gmail account), for qualification documentation and processing of your unclaimed grant and you must keep this contact confidential until you have been able to collect your unclaimed grant.
This is a typical 419 scam (i.e. advance fee scam) – where the scammer offers a treasure for you and you just have to claim it. But if you try – there will be some unforeseen charges to be paid first then more and more until the victim realises it’s all a scam and there is no fortune.
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