Government Grant Award

This is a scam: the Government Grant does not exist. The fake Public Information Officer or another equally fake person will require a fee to be paid, but no Grant will ever be made.

No Government Department in the UK uses a rocketmail or a gmail or any other webmail address.

from GOVERNMENT GRANT AWARD <[email protected]>
reply-to [email protected]
date Sat, Jan 30, 2010
subject Your Personal Email Notification - January, 2010

JANUARY, 2010.

Following the economic recovery process, please, find attached a PDF document which contains detailed information about the ongoing Government Grant.

Since the recession is a worldwide problem, this grant opportunity is open to any individual that is 18 and above worldwide.

We hope the attached document will be of great help to you.

Sincerely,

JUDITH HARRISON,
(Public Information Officer)
United Kingdom

+++++CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE+++++

This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged.
If you are not a emailed recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium.

Attached document - UK GRANT AWARD NOTIFICATION.pdf - reads:

YOUR FREE GRANT INFORMATION

Economic Recovery Information

To promote growth and creating new jobs in the European economy, we are giving out a yearly donation to 10 lucky recipients, as funding/aid from the European Union, European Commission, United Nations, UK Government and the United States 2010 Recovery Plan.

The UK government is giving out a cash grant/donation for your own personal, educational, and business development (SME funding). There's more than a thousand opportunities for grants out there, waiting for deserving applicants. The UK government sets aside half a trillion sterling for grants each year, so go right ahead and see if you can get your share.

For more information

First, contact Public Information Office for free assistance,

E-mail: [email protected]
Contact Name:Justin Morgan

Secondly, it is important that you provide the following information to reduce the burden that you may encounter during this process.

FULL NAME:
FULLADDRESS:
COUNTRY:
TELEPHONE:

In addition to the above, use the subject “GRANT INFORMATION” and include detailed information on what you plan to do with your grant as soon as you receive the funds.

I hope this information will be of help to you,

JUDITH HARRISON
Free/Public Information Office

We have received this one this morning (UK office), it made me look twice as it's slightly more convincing than the usual 'inbox' trash I ferret through every day. The big givaway for me was the term "10 lucky recipients".
Our government may have dumbed down some of it's official language, but I don't think they would use the word Lucky !!!

Tressy

Hi Tressy amd welcome to Scamwarners.

Glad you recognised the warning signs and checked it out.

Thank you for the additional information, it will help others in teh future.

If you have any questions, please ask

Apparently, it's still going around. The .pdf attachment was very slick-looking, but the new e-mail address to reply to < [email protected] > is a dead giveaway that this is bogus. With everyone searching for grants, it would be easy to swallow the hook otherwise.
Jerry

Welcome to Scamwarners jerryd1957.

Thank you for posting this information - it will alert and save others from being scammed. Well Done

If you have any questions or concerns please post we will help you all we can.

Hi there
I'm new to this site and thought I would share the following:
I too have received a notification on the UK Worlwide Recovery Grant from a certain Mr. Justin Morgan. In the past two days I have received more "winnings" from Coca Cola, Yahoo, Gmail, Microsoft, various Africans operating 419's, etc. On paper I could buy my own small country if I had to cash in.

Unfortunately in my line of work (skills development and community sustainability) we rely on funding for our projects. This is not available from our own government (easier to suck water out of a rock) so we have to source international funding. I think these scammers are waiting to pounce on companies and people like us.

Thank you for this site as I think I will be using it in all my future decisions

Kind Regards
Terence Olivier
DREAMCATCHERS Student Support and Services

Welcome Terence,

I'm glad you are aware that these are scams.

Unfortunately, once your company's details are posted online, you are a target of scammers. Some scams are more general, like the lottery scams, but some are even modified to fit the companies they target--these scams are even more dangerous as more people will believe them. That's why education is so important.

Please feel free to post any new scams you receive, and don't hesitate to stop in and ask if you have questions.

Welcome to Scamwarners
I don't think that lottery and grant scammers target their scams at particular people or organisations. It's more likely that your email address has been harvested somewhere recently.

Hi, I just received this email from a Linda Davis, email address; Linda Davis [[email protected]]. There was also an attachment that said I can contact Elsie Glass (Mrs) at email [email protected] for further information. The email addresses look so legit. Can you please advise? I live in South Africa. Thanks

Dated: 28 December, 2010

Following the economic recovery process, please, find attached a PDF document which contains detailed information about the ongoing Government Grant.

Since the recession is a worldwide problem, this grant opportunity is open to any individual that is 18 and above worldwide.

We hope the attached document will be of great help to you.

Sincerely,

Linda Davis,
(Public Information Officer)
United Kingdom

+++++CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE+++++
This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not a emailed recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium.

This is the attachment:

YOUR FREE GRANT INFORMATION
[email protected]
Elsie Glass (Mrs)
FULL NAME:
FULL ADDRESS:
COUNTRY:
TELEPHONE:
Economic Recovery Information
To promote growth and creating new jobs in the European economy, we are giving out a yearly
donation to 10 lucky recipients, as funding/aid from the European Union, European
Commission, United Nations, UK Government and the United States 2009 Recovery Plan.
The UK government is giving out a cash grant/donation for your own personal, educational,
and business development (SME funding).
There's more than a thousand opportunities for grants out there, waiting for deserving
applicants. The UK government sets aside half a trillion sterling for grants each year, so go
right ahead and see if you can get your share.
For more information
First, contact Public Information Office for free assistance,
E-mail:
Contact Name:
Secondly, it is important that you provide the following information to reduce the burden that
you may encounter during this process.
In addition to the above, use the subject “GRANT INFORMATION” and include detailed
information on what you plan to do with your grant as soon as you receive the funds.
I hope this information will be of help to you,
Linda Davis
Free/Public Information Officer

Scam. There's an identically worded one here viewtopic.php?f=7&t=6006&p=21103&hilit=trillion#p21103
Yours is slightly more sophisticated as they created a bogus website. I've started the process of getting it closed.

Domain Name:RECOVERYAIDS.ORG
Created On:05-Dec-2010 12:55:28 UTC
Last Updated On:05-Dec-2010 12:55:28 UTC
Expiration Date:05-Dec-2011 12:55:28 UTC

The email headers will have been spoofed to look as if it came from [email protected], which is why you are asked to reply to a different address.

^^^
Closed within two hours.One of my colleagues didn't hang around.

I've just been rescued from almost applying for a government grant through a 'Mrs. Megan Pearson' - Grant Information Officer/Expert, Collaborated Grant Office, [SBA/ARA/US/EU/UN] United Kingdom. I would have been totally taken in, along with the town committee I serve on, except for a small glitch that I thank God for! The link 'Megan' sent me didn't work, so I tried other ways of getting onto their website (Worrldwide Recovery Grants and Recoveryaids.org) to access the online application form. Instead, I found this site - and others stating that it was a scam. A short time later, 'Megan' sent me a new link that worked. Talk about saved by the bell!!!!!! The sweat on my brow hasn't dried yet!

Hi Beesmart,

I am very glad to hear you found us in time

A short time later, 'Megan' sent me a new link that worked.

And which link would that be? We probably can get that one offline, too Please post the mails, email addresses, everything you have on them so others can find it as well. Thanks!