I just got the same call today! It was a foreign guy named Marshall Bruce calling from 202-470-3911, and he claimed to be from the department of treasury. He said I was chosen to receive a grant for $8,400.00. I'm not an idiot so of course I asked all sorts of questions and it sounded legit at first, and I have a daughter to raise so I thought to myself, "omg! I could pay off this and that!" Apparently I had to send them a security deposit of $225 and then I had to talk to the bank representative that was handling my grant but had to send them $225 as well because they were going through 2 different branches. At this point I was furious but hey, the department of treasury was giving me free money! Yea right. The only thing that saved me was my bank, navy fed. Because of their policy of not allowing more than $600 a day withdraw, I still have some money left to my name. I called and they were sure it was a scam. I got on here and found the number for consumer fraud and gave them everything! Some of the other names were nancy calling from 646-217-4809. The money was wired to a Cody Cummings in Kansas City, Kansas. This made me cry and feel more than an idiot. That took $450 out of my 10 month olds mouth:_( these people are not American, they sound like Indian decent. No offense to anyone. Everyone please spread the word, as there is no way of getting my money back unless we can get enough evidence on them which will probably never happen. And some people aren't fortunate enough to jut throw away money. Please help!!!
Got the same call....first i didnt answer they called back..i gve them a fake acct # but the crazy part was
they knew my info. He gave me the 202 # bt nw goes by michelle thomas...she told me call tomorrow becUse the office was closing...i knew it was crazy how is the gov GIVING away money n we been in a recession for years...y nw
I have just received a call for a 7000.00 grant from the US and to go Western Union and send 120.00 to some a private party I know they are a scam looked up number and it is a cell phone businesses of this type work from a land line I knew it wasn't becuz of the reception which was pour and looked up the number and verified my suspect ions glad to no u can look up sites like this
My boyfriend got a call from this guy...He had a deep India accent...He said his name was "James Miller"...I'm sorry but James Miller is NOT an Indian name...Anyway, my boyfriend called and reported him and they told him that they have been trying to catch this guy...Chris (my boyfriend) told them what happened and gave them the number he called from and they told him that they had the number but they were still trying to catch him...They even asked if the guy had a deep Indian accent...WTF?...You never, NEVER have to pay for a government grant...This had SCAM written all over it...I don't know why they haven't caught this guy...Apparently they aren't working too hard on it but he's obviously scammed people...I feel sorry for the elderly and people that don't have any understanding of this kind of thing