I received a call from 1-347-467-1047 claiming they were the Federal Grounds Dept. They said based on a report that pulled my phone number, that I was selected to receive a government grant of $9,000. They only asked for basic information (which I gave incorrect information to see where it was leading) & they wanted my zip code in order to find a money gram location where they would wire the grant money to me after I spoke to "US Bank". I never got very far in the call because I wouldn't give any more information but this is obviously not for a federal government grant.
Yes, I received the same type of call, wanted money to send my money. When I started asking questions they got upset. Finally spoke to one fella, of course they were are foreigners, he called Americans stupid, called me a [***], I'm a lady, and the conversations went way downhill from there. I told them they were pissed because I knew they were scammers and that I was going to turn them in. They told me Americans were stupid because we wouldn't be able to catch them, how could I argue that one???? They wanted to come to my house, I told them come on over and see what was waiting for them when they got there!!!!!!! Federal Grant money is what they were GIVING away. HA!
10/7/2014 Time: 1813 I received a call from 347-467-1047. They said I got a grant from the government just in excess of $9000. They asked for zip code and my name. I asked them from with government department they were from and he replied with some unintelligible words, when I asked him to spell the department in question, he replied "You know what..." and hung up. His heavy accent was not American and sounded like he was from India.