Margaret –
Victim Location 21716
Total money lost $35,000
Type of a scam Government Grant
She received an e-mail from her cousin. She told X that she had seen her name on a list of individuals (women who had serious illnesses, or suffered hardships) as one of the individuals who had been awarded monetary grants. She had been contacted and received $150,00, and included photos of the delivery of the money. The catch was that she had to forward $2500 to them to cover "security" delivery costs (the more money you requested as a grant the larger the deposit. There were reasons that the drivers couldn’t get he money to her and then she had to keep sending more money.