Got the same call today, foreign lady by name of Rachel Green, also said i received this grant for 9,000.00 dollars,because my name was picked with 1,500 other people I paid my taxes, no bankruptcies, and made my house payments on time etc.... Scam, asked to purchase a registration card from the federal reserve bank in New York, New York. Told to not reveal any information from this call or the cinformatiin I.D. code given, call her before I went into Walmart for exact information on what card to purchase plus a sixteen digit number on the registration card, because I didn't apply for this grant, I had to fill out this registration card so it would be tax free and free of IRS. sounded too good, I did however applied for a government grant recently, but she said it wasn't the same application because I was picked by the federal government to be issued this money by random. Life could be peachy if these scams were valid, but peaches do spoil quickly in the heat of the moments of 15 minutes!
I just got a call from the same number telling me that I must qualify for a grant I told them if they could send me the money through cash they say to call them back in 5 minutes Is a scan
Just got a call for a 202 number telling me I qualified for a $9,000 grant.To call 202-780-9346..... but in order for me to get the $9,000(tax free) I have to pay $280 through a pre paid card to register for the money lol.This is so a scam. So I told them to call me back tomorrow
• "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."
• If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.
• You have not won big bucks from a benign benefactor, a pot of pesos from PCH, dinero from a doctor, a car from a caller, or a grant from a gracious government
• The tooth fairy really does not exist
• Everything you read on the internet or hear on the phone is not necessarily true.
• It is illegal to ask for money for a loan or prize, before awarding the loan or prize!
• "Free Trips" are loaded with mandatory & costly extras, and you usually must give them your card number after listening to a loooong spiel at a hotel.
• Microsoft or a different famous software company, or one of their agents did NOT cold call you to fix your computer.
• The moon is not made of green cheese.
• The IRS will snailmail you, rather than phone you, if there is a problem.
• Jackalope milk is not an aphrodisiac.
• If you Vanilla Card, GreenDot, MoneyGram, Western Union, iTunes or use ANY gift/money card to send money to a scammer, the money is gone.
• You should beware of Geeks bearing gifts, specially if the gift is a wooden horse with termites, or a statement that your computer is infected.
• 876 is NOT your lucky number, and it will cost you money to call that area code!
• The number you see on your Caller ID may not be the number of the person who called you!
• The Do Not Call List works as intended. It is NOT a call blocker!
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http://phonehelp.2truth.com/facts.html
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Received call from 202-756-3648 regarding $9000 from government, give me a conf #, and diff call back number 202-780-9346, i have to call and just give them conf # to received money, i think this is a SCAM!!