I got a call from a woman who calls herself Sophie, strong Indian accent. She said I qualified for a $7000 federal gov grant for being an on-time tax payer, and no bankruptcies. She said that I was only one out of 1600 and that it was a once in a life time opportunity. She got my bank acct number and said that the money would be in my acct in 2 hours as long as I confirmed with her Supervisor. She gave me a code:HO141. and gave me her supposed federal id# 97352, and had me call her manager named Wayne Bruce who then asked for my address, birthday and then said that before I could get the confirmation that I had to give a donation of $100 to Syria Lanka or Indonesia, but could not give me the name of an organization that it would go to and said it was going to a 3rd world country. Finally he brought up that if had to be wired before I could receive the money. It was then that I realized I have just been scammed into giving out my personal info. I hung up and goggled to find that this happens all of the time. I called Wayne back and told him that he should be ashamed of himself and go to hell, along with other choice words. Gee I feel dumb. Oh, well.
I just got the same call and when I questioned them about the caller ID# and name...they hung up on me. I did not give any info outside of address and DOB!! I called them back but any got the coporate directory!! Wow, how do ppl live with themselves.....
They just called me 10 mins ago. He asked to speak with me and I asked who it was and he repeated he needed to speak with me and once again I said "Can I ask who is calling?" he said no and hung up on me and when I called back it was the same directory. Funny huh?
I received a call from this number at 7:52 am today, June 8, 2011. I usually don't answer numbers I don't recognize but I said hello and nobody said anything and I hung up. According to the three of you, sounds like I did the right thing. I don't know how people like this get cell phone numbers unless someone I am doing business with is selling individual numbers. I believe there are legitimate businesses that have unscrupulous people working for them that sell phone numbers. I am on the do not call list and have been for a while but I don't think that really helps situations like this.
This is all scam. They call up and says "you've granted $7,000 from US Federal government" then try to get your personal info as others said. When I asked, Why the Federal government want to give me; then the idiot guy just hung up!