I just received this call for the Federal Government in WA DC people telling me that i will received 10,000 in a Western union location but first i need to submit a payment of $ 260.00 a king of Indian or Pakistani men with the name of John Smith , when i told him to out of the 10,000 to be award to me discount the $260.00 that they are claiming he said that it was a one in a life time opportunity,and insist to put on hold until i came up with the money , then i told my brother was offers the same amount and after find out was an scam, he hang up the phone lol , PEOPLE THAT'S A LIE don't pay a attention and do not give your bank or personal information
I got a call and "Richard Dawson" said I was chosen to receive a 7,000 dollar grant. so I knew this was a scam but wanted to just see what he was talkin about. he told me to go to western union and send 250 to get the 7,000. so you know what, i hung up and called back like 15 minutes later and i was like ok im at western union, and he was like what color form you got and he started naming colors so i was like red. and he was like no get green. money send form. thats all he kept yellin. then i pretended like i was asking a lady for the right form. the phone started breakin up. so he said he was gonna call me back. i was on my couch doing this the whole time. so he called back and i was like what do i need to fill out and then he was like are you playin with me? and then i nutted up on him and said yeah [***] cuz you playin wit me! then i hung up. and then he called back and said he was gonna sue me for playin with the government....ooh that was my entertainment for the day!!!
omg - They just called me, too. I've been getting tons of hang-up calls on my recorder (I screen everyone and do not have caller ID). So I finally decided to pick up. Could hardly understand the lady. She says I'm getting a government grant since I pay my bills and taxes on time. Wrong! I've filed extensions for three years due to a tax screw-up with a company I worked with involving fraud (on their part), so I knew right away this was a scammer! Get on the DO NOT CALL LIST! YOU HAVE TO RELIST EVERY 3 to 5 years I think.
more than likely ( 99 % ) the " 202" area code fraud scams going around !!!
PLEASE NOTE : THESE SCAMMERS ARE IMPERSONATING THE US GOV'T AND US GOV'T AGENCIES AND OFFICIALS !!! BEWARE !!!!
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 in INDIA / THAILAND 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....-615-1823
A Frank Gomez called me and said that I had 4,000,000 dollars. He then continued to ask me if I had received the seven letters that they had tried to send me through the mail. He said would you love to win $4 million, I said well of course I would think anyone would. Then insist to tell me to send over $2000 to Western Union. And if I didn't I would not be following government rules. He also said that I would not receive my funds if I did not send the money Western Union. So I told Frank their would be absolutely no way you receive over $2000 in funds to Western Union if I didn't receive $4 million in my money to pay taxes or anything else....so I just hung up the phone.