i got a call from this number saying that i got a 7,000.00 us fed grant i told them i do not give out my bank infor out they said i could pick the money by western union but i had to put a 260.00 for security purpose and get it back. it did not make sense to me also i do not even have a letter . i will not take a chance like this evendow i wish it was true. that is why i always check the phone number out on the computer because it happen to me before about owing money and that i was going to be arrested i called the police made a report and check the number out on the computer a scam again.
Yep! They called me too. It's weird that they called me right after I was on a gov't website looking for grants/loans to start a business which I have been doing for several weeks. I also made the first caller repeat herself over and over. I could hear the frustration in her voice. I called the # she gave me and a man answered "Gov't Grants". Again, I interrupted him several times to repeat what he said and eventually he was able to get to the part where I had to send money, a "security deposit", they said. I told them I did not have $260 to send them. I was on disability and did not get any more money until the 3rd. I asked why they couldn't take it out of the $7,000. NO, they were not authorized to take money from the grant. I hung up with him and lo and behold the first caller called me back again! Talk about follow through! She kept asking me if I wanted them to put a "hold" on the grant money or should she cancel this "once in a life time opportunity". I hesitated a few seconds and finally let them know I had been on to them all along by saying, "I'm not going to send you or anyone else money via Western Union unless you can offer proof that you are who you say you are." She got mad and hung up. Funny thing, I had just opened a letter from another scam and was on line checking them out when this scam was calling me! No virgins for them! LOL
That just happen to me i was going for it until he said go to westernunion and send $260.00 sec.deposit. this is sad when i called him back it sound like a bunch of people is in that house where he is at. Full of BS