i juust got this phone call from these same people an he was telling me that i had a 7000 dollar grant an he kept teliing me not to spend it on drugs an gambling am all this stuff bit it is so kreepy how he knows all my info then after i told him i was all set he told me that i needed this money cause i was a sweet girl an told me he wanted to call me back tommorrow an that he would call from his personal call phone an i told him he could call me if he told me if this was really a scam an the idiot told me straight out that there just trying to get our money an he said that there ven tellin people the money is for cancer kids how pathetic but ne ways after that i hung up the phone an changed my phone number.......where dp these people come from seriously!!!!!do DO SOMETHING WITH YOUR LIFES WEIRDOS GET A REAL JOB AN MAKE MONEY THE RIGHT WAY!!!!!!
Said he was from the government grant office and if My mother would send $99.00 she would recieve a $7000.00 grant. said she would have to send it to the Charity Foundation. I did a search on the number and it said not found. Called the FBI and they said it was a scam. The man said his name was Richard Lee. I called him back and asked a lot of questions like more contact info, phone numbers and where the money went to, what charity and what their number was. This guy called My mother 3 times. After I asked him what the number to the charity Foundation was He said 202......... and hung up. I asked Him if the 99 bucks was going to fund terror groups or iran insurgents into Afghan. Or was the money going directly to Alqaeda or the Taliban. The FBI wouldn't even take the number down or the guys Name so calling them is a waste of time
I had got a call from an unavailable number and was asked to call on 202-621-0282.. The person called himself Raymond and asked me to contact Lee on that number.. He said that was his department number and I could talk to his accounting manager Lee. When I told him, I was not sure it were a genuine call, he got offended.. He tried convincing me that they were genuine and that was why he had given me the department number. When I asked for a website, he directed me to www.usgrants.com which is definitely not a government website.. Beware!
I received a call today from a number 20262 10948 they said for me to go to a store and buy a green dot reloadable card the paper 1 and loaded with $200 call them back and within 30 minutes they would transfer nine thousand dollars on to my visa when I asked them why couldn't I just paid them with another form of payment like from another reloadable card they said that's not the way to the pain is taken I said well I already have a green dot card they said no you have to go get the paper one I said why we already have gone through the process and I have a plastic one they said we can't take a payment from the cards that were going to put money on I said no its not the card you going to put money on it so different reloadable card he gave me all kinds of excuses and finally I said I get it you want the paper card before it can be registered that I can't make a complaint you don't want to take a payment any other kind of pain so I can trace it and yet you want me to give you a credit card and you called me from an unavailable number he then went on to say but you have my number and I'm calling from the US government the federal government that gives grant the US Treasury Department he told me that he could be found on www.usps.com if this is true why would I have to pay them $200 in order to receive $89,000 grant also what does it matter what form of payment he gets the $200 from again the number was 20262 10948 this man's name was Calvin Smith
I received a call today from a number 20262 10948 they said for me to go to a store and buy a green dot reloadable card the paper 1 and loaded with $200 call them back and within 30 minutes they would transfer nine thousand dollars on to my visa when I asked them why couldn't I just paid them with another form of payment like from another reloadable card they said that's not the way to the pain is taken I said well I already have a green dot card they said no you have to go get the paper one I said why we already have gone through the process and I have a plastic one they said we can't take a payment from the cards that were going to put money on I said no its not the card you going to put money on it so different reloadable card he gave me all kinds of excuses and finally I said I get it you want the paper card before it can be registered that I can't make a complaint you don't want to take a payment any other kind of pain so I can trace it and yet you want me to give you a credit card and you called me from an unavailable number he then went on to say but you have my number and I'm calling from the US government the federal government that gives grant the US Treasury Department he told me that he could be found on www.usps.com if this is true why would I have to pay them $200 in order to receive $89,000 grant also what does it matter what form of payment he gets the $200 from again the number was 20262 10948 this man's name was Calvin Smith
I got that call too. The fcc should take action as this was done by phone. They need to put out an alert.
There is a law that protects elderly from scams.