NOTE: This article is not about any of the “normal” topics of this newsletter: genealogy, history, current affairs, DNA, and related topics. However, I believe every U.S. resident should be aware of this issue. Scammers are calling USA residents pretending to be Federal Bureau of Investigations (“FBI”) agents. The callers are lying and telling potential victims …
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Fake FBI Bitcoin Phone Scam Involving “Spoofed” Department of the Attorney General Phone Number
NOTE: This article is not about any of the “normal” topics of this newsletter: genealogy, history, current affairs, DNA, and related topics. However, I believe every U.S. resident should be aware of this issue. Scammers are calling USA residents pretending to be Federal Bureau of Investigations (“FBI”) agents. The callers are lying and telling potential victims …
Monticello Awarded $3.5 Million Mellon Foundation Grant for Getting Word African American Oral History Project Expansion, Digital Archive
The following is a press release written by the Mellon Foundation: The Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities, recently awarded $3.5 million to Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello to expand the UNESCO World Heritage Site’s pioneering Getting Word African American Oral History Project. Established in 1993, Getting Word is a decades-long initiative to collect and share …