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Re: [Scam] US Government Grant Department Fraud

just recieved this call.
9000 monies, western union. green dot voucher required of $170, most likely thy were going to try o get the number off of me before made it to western union. also, the number has changed, and the names.

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mark wilson
202-738-4201
michael waed

If they call you back, push for them to pay you by paypal first and that you will give them their upfront payment out of that. I bet they will get pushy for a card of some sort.

I got a call today telling me I was chosen for 8400 an all I had to do was call the manager to except in the mean time another called an the same confirmation no. said it was a 7500 so I got hold of that manager an then I needed 287$ for deposit that I would get back.When I started asking questions she replied she would lose her job an be in a bar if I didn't get my money..told her I would call back. The first callers manager then called me again an the same confirmation no. led me back to the first 8400$ grant with only 212$ application fee this time. When I asked how the same grant with the same confirmation kept changing she told me the other one was a scam..really. so I got a western union form to get information from her an I was to send my money to a Cogan Henson out of florida.Her name was so called Karyn Jones #202-470-3389/202-640-5461.watch out for these #'s too.they are busy on the phone today...

the name they gave me was a Cogan Henson in Palm Harbor, Florida but she was calling from Washington, DC an the bank that deposits the money is US Bank of New York. That's all I could get from her.Shes blowing my phone up thinking i'm on my way to western union.

Lose her job? If only. I guess they are trying for sympathy to get you to pay.

Same thing happened to me I'm a single mother with 5 kids and they scammed me and took all the money I had. Numbers:646-807-2671 and 202-241-6404 beware of this people it's not a good feeling to lose money.

The grant is up to $15,000.00 now. Accented man had my name, phone #, email, and address. I told him to drop off the check in person; I'll be the guy sitting on the porch with the shotgun.

I received a call from the same guy that the guy with the video posted. Same voice and everything. Figured I'd do some research BEFORE doing anything, including calling the number he gave me which was: 202-657-4861. I've noticed from reading other comments that the thing most of the numbers have in common is the 202-657 part and then the last 4 digits are different. Glad I did research before falling into the scam. Thank you person who posted about this. You are a life saver.

Guess what!!! I received the same call same people same type of numbers same speech and every thing, I too have received grants from the actual govt and there is NO money to be paid to them to get your grant. The grant is normally like a pell grant for school and is normally not much more than 2500.00. First things first. The govt doesn't randomly select people to give money too. Second during this Govt shut down, if the IRS is closed down in parts I seriously doubt the Govt grants dept will stay open. These bunch of what sounds like people from India , with names like Sam Benjamin. Seriously!!! or Agnus Christie. Come on!!! They have called me like 6-8 times and I toy with them... Its fun. That was before I found this site. Now that I have found this site I will torchure them mentally. I will have to tell you I did spark my intrest to look to see if this could be real. These people who are attempting to scam us are getting better with their script and answers to the questions we may ask. The first time they called me they were not as smooth. I bet they are using store bought trac phones where you can request any area code the last four digits are always different when they call but they never change the area code. that's part of their gimmick. People please don't fall for this. Think about this. We the hard working tax paying actual Americans have a difficult time getting our tax refunds back. The Broke ass Government can barely pay their debt, so why would they give us money for nothing..