Last time I checked grants are free!!! Anytime someone asks you to purchase a greendot& they aren't your family and friends or company or someone you know you owe, It's a SCAM!!! You won't be able to get that money back either
Hey the U.S.A. government department grants call me and told me that they were gonna give me 8000 dollars and a guy calls me and he says his name is ben mlcsalson and gave me a code, security code and then he gave me another number and den call this number 3607803796 and then this guy answer and told me his name James Brandie and his extension is (257) and then he told me that to go buy a green dot money Pak at CVs store but I didn't end up going to the store. So I started searching it up and it was fake we should find this person and turn them in.
This is a scam.
They asked me to confirm my name, and zip code. Then asked if I was single and age for confirmation purposes. They then gave me the money code and the security code and told me to call back the 3607803796 number. It was odd because the woman I spoke to said "after I end this call I'll transfer your files to the US treasury dept. and then you call this number to contact my business and give them the money and security codes."(Who already has all my information, because I already deal with them. They always send everything in written confirmation ALWAYS!) What stuck out to me was "MY BUSINESS."
It's a scam, don't be fooled.
My husband received a call informing him that he had won an $8,000 grant from the Federal Reserve Bank. The caller, with what my husband felt was a middle-Eastern accent, had our address and asked my husband to confirm it. He gave a "Grant ID number" and a "Grant Security Code", and then asked my husband to call back to accept the grant. No money was asked for at that time. The number my husband was told to call was 360-780-3796. My husband did not call the number, and the man called back to ask why he didn't call. My husband told the man he thought this was a scam, and the man on the phone tried to assure my husband that it was indeed not a scam. He further stated that the call was being recorded, as if that would somehow prove its legitimacy. Then my husband hung up.
They had me for a min til they said i got to give them 200 dollars on a green dot then i knew it was a scan funny [***] people plz dont fall for this [***]