too good to be true??

toni001

got this email this morning:

THE FONDATION DE FRANCE(FDF)
http://www.fdf.org
40, Avenue Hoche
Paris 75008 France.

The Fondation De France would like to notify you that you have been
chosen by the board of trustees as one of the final recipients of a
cashGrant/Donation for your own personal, educational, and business
development. The FDF, established 1977 by the Multi-Million groups and
now supported by the Economic Community for West African States
(ECOWAS),United Nations Organization (UNO) and the European Union (EU) was
conceived with the objective of human growth, educational, and
community development.In conjunction with the ECOWAS, UNO and the EU,
We are giving out a yearly donation of US$850,000.00 each to 100 lucky
recipients. These specific Donations/Grants will be awarded to 100 lucky
international
recipients worldwide; in different categories for their personal business
development and enhancement of their educational plans. This is a
yearly program, which is a measure of universal development strategy.The
objective is to make a notable change in the standard of living of people all
around the Universe (From America to Europe, Asia to Africa and all around),
probablylike in the next 20yrs.

Kindly note that you will only be choosen to receive the donation once,
which means that subsequent yearly donation will not get to you again.
Take time and thought in spending the donation wisely on something that
will last you a long time. Recipients are only eligible to be awarded
this donation once. Based on the random selection exercise of internet
websites and millions of supermarket cash invoices worldwide, you were
selected among the lucky recipients to receive the award sum of US$850,000.00
as charity donations/aid from the Fondation De France, ECOWAS, EU and
the UNO in accordance with the enabling act of Parliament. (Note that all
beneficiaries email addresses were selected randomly from over 100,000
internet websites or a shop's cash invoice around your area in which
you might have purchased something from).

You are required to contact the Executive Secretary below, for
qualification documentation and processing of your claims. After
contacting our office, you will be given your donation pin number,
which you will use in collecting the funds. Please endeavor to quote
your Qualification numbers (FDF-444-6647-9163) in all discussions.

Executive Sec. Mrs.MARIA LAZIO
Email:maria.lazio@yahoo.fr

VERIFICATION FORM
FULL NAMES:
ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP:
COUNTRY
SEX:
AGE:
MARITAL STATUS:
OCCUPATION:
TELEPHONE NUMBER:

Sign. Lilian toure.

im getting warning bells telling me its too good to be true. what do you all think?

savemoney

Yes looks like a scam

sarahg1969

Looks genuine enough to me, OP.

dealer_wins

If you applied to The Fondation De France for a grant recently then it could possibly be legit.

Otherwise it is 100% a scam to con you out of your personal details and an upfront "processing fee" to get the non-existent grant.

CHR15

Someone sent you an email out of the blue....... and you think it is for your benefit!!!!

Go for it OP, must be your lucky day!!

Jeez, I hope this is :spam: and someone isn't this backward.

rosysparkle

If it was real, don't you think the reply address would be xxx@fdf.org rather than a webmail address?

If it was real, there would be fewer spelling and grammar errors ("probablylike" lol) and the grants would probably be given in euros not dollars.

It's a scam, delete and block. Or report it to FDF if you want to alert them to it.

sarahg1969

Can you imagine how cluttered this site would get if everyone started a thread about every email they received about scams like this? I'd start about 20 a day myself.

Why can't people just bin them, instead of having to ask if they're genuine, have I really won, should I report this to the police/trading standards, etc?

I seriously wonder how these people get through every day without serious incident, if they can't recognise such an obvious thing as this.

Greensprout

'If it sounds too good to be true..'

Nuff said

Sooler

Well said sarahg1969

Optimist

sarahg1969 wrote: »

Can you imagine how cluttered this site would get if everyone started a thread about every email they received about scams like this? I'd start about 20 a day myself.

Why can't people just bin them, instead of having to ask if they're genuine, have I really won, should I report this to the police/trading standards, etc?

I seriously wonder how these people get through every day without serious incident, if they can't recognise such an obvious thing as this.

Eeerm do you mean that the email I got, telling me that I had won the Spanish lottery or the mail I got from that nice man in Nigeria who wanted me to help him get all his millions out might not be genuine ? :eek:

Sooler

Some advice
http://www.crimestoppers-uk.org/crime-prevention/helping-prevent-crime/scams/phishing

You can report scam email here
http://www.banksafeonline.org.uk/report_scam.html