Who called from 2022154184

Received a call from this number on Friday, 10 Dec 2015 @ 1255p est, that is actually showing on my caller id as: "20-215-4184" & listed as "Out-of-area". Did not notice at first that the last digit of the area code was missing, but as the caller identified herself as calling from the United States Government Grants office, I'm assuming it might have been "202", plus searching on "20-215-4184" doesn't get me into ANY of these type telemarketing call sites.
As stated above, caller identified herself as calling from the U.S. Gov. Grants Dept. & that I had been randomly selected to receive a grant of some dollar amount ($8,000?). I cut the TSR off before she could go to far by saying "Just how stupid do you people think I am? I am a Naval Officer & I KNOW that this is not the way the Grants office works" or words to that effect. Calmly told the caller that I was not interested (even though a part of me secretly hoped they were legit), to put my number on their DNC list & that I would report them to the FTC & FCC if I heard from them again.

Am writing this out of concern that there just might be a scam out there of telemarketers calling ppl to tell them have received this so-called "Grant" in an effort to get at people's bank account info. Since I am a disabled Vet & on Soc Sec Retirement, the Federal Government ALREADY HAS that info on me, I'm not too worried, but wasn't going to let this TSR get that far. Meant to call the "REAL" Grants Office to let them know there may be an active scam out there of ppl masquerading as Government Officials, but will have to do this Monday.

Good luck. Hope no-one else gets targeted by this type of call.

I received call after call. I was just picking up and hanging up without saying anything. "They" would call right back. I finally picked up, listened, but didn't say anything. A man with foreign accent called me by name and said that he would keep calling me back every time I hung up or if I didn't say anything...then he said he would make my day horrible(although he didn't pronounce the word properly). I finally told him he couldn't even talk properly and hung up on him. He called right back. I disconnected and left the phone off of the "rest" so he would get a busy signal. I tried to block but didn't have the 10 digits. Mine also read 20-215-4184. I have our number on the do not call registry, so this is very illegal.

Most of these calls are coming from India and Pakistan.  Are you trying to block on a blocking device or through the phone service provider?  Blocking devices that have area code blocking, you can block those numbers in.

To report the fraud, go here:
http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/support/general-support/grant-fraud.html
Their number is listed , along with an email address, at the top of the page.
Also here:
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0113-government-grant-scams

http://www.usa.gov/

To file complaints on Foreign company's and scams:
http://800notes.com/forum/ta-d20d86fdc3e145c/reporting-international-scams
https://www.econsumer.gov/#crnt
eConsumer.gov: Report Your Complaint
E-mail: [email protected]

http://www.stopfraud.gov/report.html
http://www.fraud.org/