I just received a phone call on my cell phone. The male voice with an obvious either Indian or Pakistani accent said he was calling to inform me that the U.S. Gov't has $9,000 for me..................at which point I called him a phony and hung up.
Just received tx from(202)511-2457 and a female of eastern decent (could hardly understand her) saying since I was such a good citizen and paid my taxes on time , I was chosen to get $9000.00 from the US Govt. All they wanted was either my bank account # with routing # and/or an active credit Card # and I would have the funds transferred within 25 min.
Not a prank call... a scam. The money would be deposited to your bank account or to a gift or credit card... Therefore, you would have to give that information to the caller... Bye-bye money, or much charged to cards. Not well executed. I told the caller I had no such cards or accounts and I had hardly gotten the words out of my mouth and they hung up...