This is "The Government Grant Department". Sounds legit, right? They have called everyday for a week, never a message and when you do answer there is a long pause and then a computer generated voice recording says "goodbye" and you are hung up on. I just called it back and asked to be removed from their list and was told that I am the one hanging up. Then they tried to make me feel like a loser for not wanting to accept "government grant money". Don't even bother talking with these people. Just block them.
I keep getting these calls to my phone and they are saying they are a government grant company I do not want them calling me and I asked them not to however they continue to call and harass something needs to be done about these these crooks acting as though they are a legitimate company getting ahold of everyones phone numbers
Got a number of calls the week of 2/16 from both men & women from this outfit who are agressive, rude, obnoxious, and aren't native English speakers. Clearly coming from a call center. Those calls came from 209-813-4822. When pressed repeatedly, they told me their call back number was 315-889-1916. Here's the website they said I could use to find out more info about them: http://www.mygovernmentgrants.com/grant_money/customer_support.htm. Here's the site I found from the Federal Trade Commission about these scams: http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0113-government-grant-scams. I think we can report them to the FTC. I intend to try to get specific names of people before I do that. Today, they ramped it up another level. 5 calls before noon from 360-450-0452 above. Hangups after I answer. I figured out how to block the call, but I just discovered they left voice mail at 4:54pm. "I will call you again and again, bi**h." Probably because I told the loser last week that I was going to call the Attorney General on him. That was before I found the FTC procedure. Called the number on this thread back at 11:30pm tonight, and no one picked up, but someone terminated the call without having it go to VM. They picked the wrong person to jack around when they started harrassing me!
I received a call from a person stating I was selected for a Federal Grant of $7,000.00 that would not have to be paid back based on a few qualifications that I was selected from. It was hard to understand the caller because of the thick accent the caller had. I continued to listen; however, I was and am skeptical of this phone call. The caller said they were going to give me a grant approval number along with a phone number I could call to collect my grant. The caller then asked me to verify my name. I said you called me and said I qualified for the grant you should know my name, and with all the scams out here they should understand my hesitation on providing my name. Against my best judgement I did say my name and then the caller said in a quick hurry, "sorry wrong person" and hung up on me. The number they called from was 360-450-0452.