My son is a freshman just turned sophmore @ Tech and today in the mail he received a check in the mail for a $10,000 grant he never applied for. The check was sent by a Melissa Haywood in the amount of $979.47. Ms. Haywood request that he cash the check and send her $500 of it as her brokerage fee.....Guess where this going?....and when he cashes the check and sends her the $500 brokerage fee she will send him a check for the balance $9021.00. If he cashes the check and doesn't send the fee in 5 days he will be turned over to a collection agency. We Googled this and it is just what I thought it would be......a domestic variation on the Ethiopian scam. The check is probably worthless and if he deposited it in his checking account he would be skined out of $500...be aware......