Just received a call from this number. Man with accent said he was calling from the IRS and that my name and number came up to receive $7000. I hung up on him and blocked the number.
I think these are linked to things like discount sites or sites to get free gift cards. That kind of thing. I just got ropes into one and have gotten these calls since.
I got a call from the number 202 656 8839 & was verbally abused with extremely foul language. I do not know what the name of the company was, but this is harassment.
I have received multiple calls from 202 656 8839 from the Washington D.C. area from what sounds like a boiler room call center and as the accents vary with each caller the same message of a U.S. Government award of 7 thousand being offered to 1700 lucky people remains the same. These scam artists are obtaining peoples detailed information from online marketing agencies and websites and then bouncing their digital calls off of servers in various states or the nation's capital that their targeting so it appears that the call originated from a number that registers as being within the same country when in fact their half way around the world.
Called and asked for me and I ask what was this about it was about a 1,000 dollar grant from the government because I was approved. NO thanks not only that it sounded like a [***] anyway.....