I just got a call from this number telling me I was going to get $9000 in grant money from the US Gov. and I would not have to pay it back or pay taxes on it? I told the women that I was expecting a man to talk with me because my caller ID said Dante Hunter. I told this sounded like a scam and was not interested. She asked why it was a scam and my reply was that I have never heard of the gov not wanting taxes. Thanks her from her time and hung up. Googled Dante Hunter and was not impressed with what I found. Confirmed it was a scam.
You, like most everyone else, are the victim of a caller using "predictive dialers". More numbers are dialed than there operators to handle connections, therefore, only the first to answer their phones make a connection. It's a lazy mans way of mass dialing without effort.
Call from this number before 8 am PDT. I no longer answer for numbers I don't recognize.District of Columbia was on the caller ID. No message was left.
They called and said I was 1 out of 10 people in my area that have been selected for a grant of 9000.00. From the us federal reserve in DC. So I asked them if it was going to be cold hard cash. Then I just kept asking them questions like hows the weather in DC today. They kept to script but at least I got him to raise his voice and hang up on me.
I couldn't understand any of them clearly.
His name was john smith with a really thick accent I asked him I didn't know to many john smith from India pausssss . The he said I won a grant from the US of A government I told him no I didn't pausssss he said yes I did he said he need my information I asked him you are the government you have my information . And then he hung up on me scam scam scam