Called me this morning and said he was from Washington D.C. That was all I could understand. I highly doubt he was even in America and told him he had such a heavy accent that I could not understand him. He hung up. I have blocked the caller on my cell phone. I am positive this is a SCAM!
These people have called literally every 30 minutes from 9 am until 5:30 am about a government grant. I stated I wasn't interested and to please remove me from their list and they continued to call me. At around 3:30 1 man even replied "f you i will not remove you from this list you b****" so I hung up and called one of the several numbers they called me from back and asked to speak to a manager. Low and behold it was the manager who answered and said he would be fired. Less than 3 minutes later I received a call back from the rude man saying " you got me fired and now you owe me a job" along with other not so nice words. I hung up and they continued to call, every 3-5 minutes until 5:30! Total scam! DONT FALL FOR IT!!
found some info on prefix 202
27 Apr 2012 | 727 replies
HELLO
just a fyi that there is a huge and never ending amount of fraud and scam calls from the " 202 " area code"............
HERE IS SOME HELPFUL INFO , SO WATCH OUT !!!
some are landlines...many are cell phones...some are spoofed and linked to offshore foreign countries !!!!
we've traced back most of these numbers to offshore foreign call centers and scammers working out of , but not limited to..... in INDIA / THAILAND / AFRICA / JAMAICA ETC....
here's a few other numbers posted from the same area code offering a wide variety of scams / collecting for non existant " payday loans "....free money / scam giveaways / $1,000's in free gov't money......... etc etc.....stories change out all the time......and the usual nonsense!!!
** mysteriously call to claim they have several thousand of dollars to send you....just provide you bank account and credit card right away etc etc.........scam scam
several of these are the usual long ongoing scams such as : you have won a free walmart / bestbuy gift card....or you have won a free ipad etc......all long ongoing scams
202-621-0436 ( offshore foreign call center ? ) poor english and violent on the phone! claim to be giving away $1,000's in free cash....just give them all your personal info etc....