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Thank you. This scam is also showing up on Facebook. My sister received a rather enthusiastic message several months ago from someone who had hijacked a friend's account, asking her if she had received her $50,000 from the Department of Health and Human Services. Suspicious, my sister asked me to take a look at the website the scamster had provided a link to. Though it looked authentic, I knew it wasn't and told her to report it to her friend and Facebook. In the meantime, the scamster kept sending messages asking her if she had called about her money. When my sister began asking pointed questions about the so-called "award money", the messages stopped. The jig was up and they knew it.