by Jack
You may be receiving a phone call soon from a scammer that can barely speak English. He’s going to say he’s from the Treasury Department and you have been selected to receive a grant for $9000 because you’re a good citizen or some such BS and he needs your bank account number to do a transfer. He says it will only take a few minutes and you will get your money…actually he will get your money!
I realize you would have to be pretty stupid to fall for something like this, but it happens. Elderly people are way too trusting.
I recieved such a call two minutes ago and I started in interrogating the guy, he got so flustered he forgot his lines, then I got tough. I said he had reached a police bait number for phone scams and we were tracking his call and we had his voice print analysis now. That no matter where he was calling from we’re coming for him and I was personally going to make sure he was busted and got the max prison time. There was a lot of stammering in the background, I really rattled this fool. I told him he had no where to run, it was just a matter of time until we got him. He got scared and hung up at this point, but at least I made him feel very uncomfortable…lol
Sounds like the fake cash grant reported at Callercenter.com. The scammer tells the victim that he has been picked to received usually an amount of $9000 for paying taxes on time. All the recipient needed to do was verify his identity by providing personal information and then providing bank details and the money would be deposited on his account. But the call is a total scam and anybody who receives such a call should hang up.
Just got the call. We let him go through his spiel and told him we know what this is and DO NOT CALL BACK! This scammer asked us to get a Greendot card and put 180.00 on it to take to Western Union. Don’t fall for it folks!