OMG... we just got the same exact story today. Who do we report this too? I thought it very fishy when they said not to tell western union what it was for. I knew it was a scam from the beginning. Thanks to all the reports on the internet in helping me confirm these scam artists!!!
recieved a boiler room call advising me that I have just qualified for a $6000 government grant because I was a good citizen and did not get arrested. All I had to do was to call 202 621-0716 and give her supervisor a secret code number.
I got the same call with my own secret number (starting with "W" for "Washington" and "G" for "grant" as the caller told me). Have you reported this to anyone?
I was almost taken by the same phone call scam,but luckilly I have the nternet and was able to do a nmr reversal and pulled up people who was almost taken by this flim-flam scam.