UNDP issues alert about scam using its name

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UNDP issues alert about scam using its name

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) says it has been alerted that a person purporting to be chairman of a so-called ‘UNDP Grant Programme’ has been fraudulently sending emails announcing 'humanitarian development cash grants' amounting...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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