Well, I'm upset! They offered me $7000. I want to know why they were willing to give you more! Wonder where they're really calling from, even though the number is registered oit of DC.
I had the same experience and they wanted my bank information to deposit the $. I requested a cashier's check and they said they couldn't do it that way and that is when he gave me the "approval code" BL600 and a phone # to call 206-866-5749 for his supervisor Fiona Farmer. I checked to verify what I already know which that it IS a scam!
i received the same call and so i let her talk and then i asked, how did the government pick me to receive money i don't have to pay back? she says, Ma'm you are one of several people chosen to receive this money and you don't ever have to pay it back to which i replied.....Ma'm if "a government' is willing to give me money and i dont have to pay it back it must certainly be NOT the US goverment. She says, yes ma'm it is the us government, i am calling from DC and you have been seletected...etc. etc. etc. i then asked which branch of the government she was referring to.....hung up! reallly???? how stupid can THEY be?????
I just received a call from Muria with phone number 202-621-5429 and told me the same story that I won $ 7000 grant from the US Gov. and gave a cod (aproval number) and another phone number to call Carol(202-738-4217). When I search it on google I found that both numbers are cell numbers to the same person.
Then I called her back and I told her this is a fraud and I will call the FBI, she hung up the phone.