A new (to me) scam: UNESCO Grants!

[ritaxis]

Here's the text of an email I got this morning:

United Nations Joint Programme.
Division for the Promotion of basic Education
Sector UNESCO 7, place de Fontenoy,
F-75352 Paris 07 SP,France.
Fax: +33 1 45 68 56 26/27
www.unesco.org

Qualification numbers (154/4456/011).

It is obvious that this notification will come to you as a surprise, 
Please find time to read it carefully as we congratulate you following our official 
publication of results
of an exclusive list of 47,000,000 e-mail addresses of individual
and corporate bodies picked by an advanced automated random computer ballot 
search from the internet as part of our international information technology 
enhancement programme.
No tickets were sold and Applications were also made by national governments 
or international non-governmental organizations,maintaining formal consultative 
relations with 
UNESCO in your country.
This was held on 28th of November 2010 in United kingdom.
A Draft of  500,000,00(Five Hundred Thousand Great British Pounds) will be 
issued in your name. For Validation Purpose ,
Please Forward The Following Information as Listed Below to our Information 
and Payment bureau Officer.

Required Info
Full Names:.
Residential address:.
Tel(Mobile):.
Nationality/Country:.
Age/Sex:.
Occupation/Position:

SEND DETAILS FOR VALIDATION TO: une scogran toffic@   aol.  com
Dr Mariana Patru on:  or call Tel: +4470-3598-1682

Best Regards,
Isabelle Le Fournis,
(Press Relations Section UNESCO©

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Comments

[zeborah]

It's a variation on the lottery scam aimed at a more upmarket audience. I'm pretty sure there's a scam for every demographic.

(When I occasionally allude to my secret crime-fighting identity, I'm fighting scams by baiting the scammers - wasting their time and occasionally their money. I haven't baited every kind of scam, but I'm familiar with a whole lot of them.)