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USAID Award Disbursment Notice Scam
USAID Award Disbursment Notice Scam

The fake USAID email below is a scam. Therefore, recipients are asked not to follow the instructions in it. The email is an advance fee scam that tricks potential victims into sending the scammers behind it personal information. Once the scammers have received their potential victims' information, they will ask them to send money in order to receive their so-called award or money. But, if the money is sent, the scammers will take it and disappear, and the potential victims will not get the award or money they were promised.

The USAID Award Disbursment Notice Scam

1605215751713638 U.S.Agency for International Development (Award Disbursment Notice)

Fri 5/28/2021 5:14 AM

From: "U.S.Agency" in5xow9u4u8pk4119@shengjingbank.com.cn

This is to inform you that as a certified registered business owner,

licensed and insured by U.S.Agency for International Development. you have been awarded the sum of five hundred thousand US dollars to boost your business / company

Pursuant to the authority contained in the U.S. Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, the U.S. Agency for International Development (here in after referred to as "USAID"), here by awards to you (here in after referred to as “[email address]]”), the sum of five hundred thousand U.S. Dollars payable in U.S. Dollars for U.S.recipients and local currency for Non-U.S. recipients,

Kindly provide your desired payment method as soon as possible. Your Refrence Number is ( 3503976842686876762063917 )

USAID's decentralized network of resident field missions is drawn on to manage U.S. Government (USG) low-income Citiziens and Countries for a range of purposes.

· Disaster relief

· Poverty relief

· Technical cooperation on global issues, including the environment

· Socioeconomic development. e.t.c

Your Urgent Response is needed for disbursement...

Headquarters: Washington, D.C., United States

Founder: John F. Kennedy

Founded: 3 November 1961

Agency executives : Gloria Steele , Acting Administrator;

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