Please Help, Email Scam

Hi Everyone,
I got an email a day or two ago saying:

"Hello and greetings to you.

You have been selected as a recipient of the DFID quarterly grant. For details, reply to: [email protected]"

I don't remember applying for the grant so I then googled the DFID quarterly grant and found the website and saw they offered a lot of grants so I sent this email back:

"Hi I don't quite know what this is, please explain"

Then I got an email back the next day saying.

"DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
African Representative Dept: 15 Herbert Macaulay Way,
Abuja, Nigeria - 900001

DATED THIS DAY THE 5th OF OCTOBER 2013

Attention: Recipient

This is to bring to your notice that the Department of International Development (DFID) is presently giving out the total sum of Seventy Million US Dollars as GRANT to a total of 10 recipients in this quarterly program. Five of the recipients have been chosen from within Africa, while the other five recipients have been randomly selected from other continents.

DFID is a UK's government agency which was commissioned by the United Nations to provide financial assistance to individuals around the world especially in developing countries with a view to empowering them to be able to positively affect the lives of those in their communities.

In-order to be closer to those most in need of this grant, the department's grant branch was opened in Nigeria, West Africa. It is my pleasure to inform you that you have emerged as one of the recipients to receive the grant of Seven Hundred Thousand US Dollars. DFID has a data-base of over 100 million possible recipients and every quarter, we select those to receive the grant through an electronic balloting system.

We will be sending you as MASTER CARD that will allow you withdraw a maximum cash of Ten Thousand US Dollars. In-order to configure the Master Card, we will need you to immediately send the below information's.

** FULL NAMES:-
** NATIONALITY:-
** HOME ADDRESS:-
** PHONE NUMBER:-
** DATE OF BIRTH:-

You will have nothing to worry about concerning the delivery and processing fees to get your Master Card to you at your location. However, in-line with International Money transfer requirement, you are to personally obtain an anti-money clearance certificate before you can be permitted to receive this money in your country of residence.

Do get back to us with the required details as soon as possible and after the configuration of your master card, we will inform you on how to proceed further.

Have a lovely day ahead and Warm Regards,

Mr. James Morrison
CHAIRMAN AWARD COMMITTEE"

It also had a phone number at the bottom which I will call on Monday. I would love for this to be real but I have heard that things that seem too good to be true usually are. I don't really see the harm in giving out these details though, it's not like I'm giving them my bank details right? Please help guys

Do not call. It is just an old scam. Same as others. They all go the same way: There is a big pile of money, but you will need to pay some fees before you can get it. The fees have to be paid by Western Union. Scam. You will keep paying fees until you can't pay anymore but you will never get the grant.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_scam

Thanks so much

Bog-standard ATM card scam. The card weighs several kilograms and you will be required to pay for shipping, lawyer fees, etc. for a card that does not have any money you can withdraw, or does not even exist.

The Department for International Development is part of the UK government, not Nigeria, and the first hit I find about the quarterly grant that's not in the UK is this thread. What website did you look at?