In a scholarship scam, students are being victimized to pay an amount of $249 as the processing fees for scholarships, warned the UTB-TSC officials, as reported in THE MONITOR on October 27, 2011.
According to the Director of financial aid at the University of Texas-Brownsville/Texas Southmost College, Mary Comerota, the whole scam was discovered when a student communicated with her about the details of the e-mail received on October 18, 2011.
The content of the e-mail is a complete junk created with the motive of enticing young minds on the base line charity with a new $ 2,000-10,000 grant and asking them for further details like name, e-mail, date of birth, city, state, and zip code for processing the grant.
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