They have also called me repeatedly to tell me that I have qualified for a gov grant of $5,000.00. They want my banking information to send it to me. I keep telling them to mail it, that I am not giving them that info. Then they asked me for a credit card. One time they hung up, the second time they said ok, this last time he said he was going to check with his supervisor. A friend of mine just got scammed like this. She received an email from what looked like her Well's Fargo Bank. They said they where updating information and needed her account info. The next thing she new they had taken $10,000.00 from her account.
We have had 6 phone calls from this number in the last 30 days. No message is left, but the caller ID says, "INTL. Number". We have never answered. Interesting that other people are getting calls from this number. Who are they? Are they really international?
I just received a call from this number today - since its a business phone I picked up. The caller identified themselves from a "grants" office. Let him go through his script and found him to say he was calling on behalf of a $5K grant I have qualified and wanted to verify my information. Before anything was provided - I cut him off to ask that he remove the number. Its another one of those SCAMS!
They have also called me repeatedly to tell me that I have qualified for a gov grant of $5,000.00. They want my banking information to send it to me. I keep telling them to mail it, that I am not giving them that info. Then they asked me for a credit card. One time they hung up, the second time they said ok, this last time he said he was going to check with his supervisor. A friend of mine just got scammed like this. She received an email from what looked like her Well's Fargo Bank. They said they where updating information and needed her account info. The next thing she new they had taken $10,000.00 from her account.