Recipients of fake text or email messages similar to the ones below, which claim that Julie Leach, a 50-year-old Michigan woman who won $310.5 in the Powerball Jackpot, is donating millions of dollars to randomly selected individuals, is a scam being sent by cyber criminals to their potential victims. Therefore, recipients of the same text or email messages are asked to delete them, and should not respond to them.
If a recipient responds to the fake or text or email message, he/she will be asked to send money in order to receive their so-called donation or grant. But, once the money is sent and received by the scammers, they will take collect it and disappear. Remember, once you are asked to send money in order to receive a lottery prize, donation or grant for a lottery game or event that you did not sign up for, it is a scam.
Samples of the "Julie Leach Grant or Foundation" Donation Scam
FRM:Julie Leach Grant
SUBJ:Grant
MSG:Hi I'm Julie Leach, Winner of $310.5M Powerball Jackpot, my grant of $2MILLION USD has been donated to you. contact: j.leach157@yandex.com to claim.
From: Julie Leach <JLGRANTFOUNDATION@representative.com>
The Julie Leach Foundation
1711 Cherrydown
Three Rivers MI 78001
United States.
Hello xxxxx ,
After much verification and confirmation The Julie Leach Foundation have decided to release your funds to you , I have no doubt now that you will put this funds in good use and also help the needy around you..
This mail is once again to officially inform you about the authenticity/legitimacy of this award and also bring to your notice once again that it was your Profile through the Linkedin Social Network that emerge you a lucky beneficiary of the Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ($500,000.00) in the on going Julie Leach Foundation World Wide Grant. Your winning verification process is completed and yo
The Julie Leach Foundation
1711 Cherrydown
Three Rivers MI 78001
United States.
Hello
After much verification and confirmation The Julie Leach Foundation have decided to release your funds to you , I have no doubt now that you will put this funds in good use and also help the needy around you..
This mail is once again to officially inform you about the authenticity/legitimacy of this award and also bring to your notice once again that it was your Profile through the Linkedin Social Network that emerge you a lucky beneficiary of the Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ($500,000.00) in the on going Julie Leach Foundation World Wide Grant. Your winning verification process is completed and your funds is approved for remittance. you are now entitled to your full grant of $500,00.00 cash which by now has been encoded in a bank transfer code.
Kindly allow me to inform you that we have discovered a hug number of double claims due to beneficiarys informing close friends relatives, attorney and third parties about their donations. As a result, these close friends, relatives, attorney and third parties tried to claim the donation sum on behalf of the real recipients thereby casing problems for the payout bank. Please be informed that any double claim discovered in the disbursement process, will certainly result to the cancellation of that particular donation, making a loss for both the double claimer and the real beneficiary, as it is taken that the real recipient was the informer to the double claimer about the donation. so your are hereby advised to keep your information strictly confidential until your claim has been fully recovered. i will be glad to visit or send my team upon the completion of a desirable project done by you for the less privilege around you after receiving this grant.
PAYOUT BANK CONTACT DETAILS:
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[*]Name of bank -------: SWEDBANK PLC USA
[*]Office address -------: One Penn Plaza, 15th Floor, New York, N.Y 10119
[*]Name of department ----: Online Transfer
[*]Transfer officer in charge ---: Mr Philip Daka
[*]Contact number ----: Tel: +1 321-300-7081
[*]Contact email---: accountdept@swedeemail.com
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After the bank must have opened up a new on-line bank account for you, you will be able to login and transfer your money from your online bank account to your local bank account there in your country . You also welcome to visit the said bank yourself to claim your grant if you find the whole process cumbersome, we only making sure you get your grant the safest way possible.
Congratulations and do not fail to update me with further correspondence with you and the bank so i can give feed-back to my foundation board of directors and again after receiving your grant you will be required to visit us depending on your location and give a formal speech for documentation purposes.
Note: You may likely receive more winning notification mails due to late delivery message from our department. Please do disregard and delete the message
God Bless and Good-luck
J.L (Julie Leach Foundation)
Persons who were tricked by "Julie Leach Grant or Foundation" donation email scam are asked to report it to the police. And, those who were instructed by the cyber criminals to use their credit cards to make payments for their so-called donation are asked to contact their banks for help.