call came from 253-210-6601,he had a bad accent (hard to understand)but the caller said because I pay taxes on time and don't have bankruptcies and I am good citizen and have a job, he said I came out on top in a neighborhood survey, only few people received this offer but the United States government wants to give me $9000 dollars as a grant and I did not have to pay it back. He kept telling me that I cannot use the money for bad things , like drugs, alcohol and gambling, I must use it for only good , like buy a new car, fix up my house, pay bills. Three ways to collect my money, 2 of which they wanted to deposit it directly into my bank account. He seemed to know that I would say no to that, so the 3rd way was for them to wire it to Western Union so I could pick it up there. But I have to call this number first 360-244-4592 to speak to his accounts manager and he gave me a cash confirmation # MN 745, do not tell anyone that number, very important. But I have to call his manager and follow his directions exactly, because there are rules and guidelines I must follow and do them correctly. After I said okay , he kept making me repeat the numbers and I had to call right away as soon as we hung up . When I did not call right away, someone called me from the same # . This time I did not pick it up. I did not give him my name or phone or address he had all of those things already, he told me what they were. He did ask for my age and I advised him that its not nice to ask a lady her age, so I gave him a wrong age(so he could not figure out my actual date of birth) .. that's my story, sorry it so long...
So I had the same call and they called my work number (I did not correct them). Knowing it is a scam my office thought it would be funny to go thru and see what would happen. SO they go thru everything and then you have to register your money in you name for a fee of $210 and you will receive that back this is so you dont have to pay taxes on it. Hello didn't you just say that I was receiving this for paying my taxes. HAHAHA like I really am going to give you money or my bank info to get this your crazy.
I just recently received a call from this Scam and it's everything you described. The first time someone called me from Long Beach, Washington and the lady had a bad accent. But she gave me a confirmation code and gave me a list of options to claim my grant. I have been trying to take out a loan to go back to school and these people called me saying that the loan was a grant to go back to school. They said that I needed to have money in my account for the one time $230 so that I wouldn't have to pay back the IRS in taxes. And stupid me believed them and gave them my age and my bank account number and even the name of my bank. I told them that I didn't have any money. Maybe like $20 in my account and even said I don't get paid until Friday. STUPID. I'm an idiot and now they could probably open up credit cards in my name....