202-697-9105

Called, did not answer when i said hello, i called and no one answered.

4/29/15 @ 2:07 p.m. - Received call on my cell phone from man with a heavy Indian accent. When I answered, "hello", he was silent...I said "hello" again and he stated, "I am with the U. S. Grants Agency"...I waited for the B.S. to follow, but there was silence. When he didn't proceed and didn't hang up, I asked him in a gruff voice who he was trying to reach. He stuttered and then hung up the phone! Not sure what his scam is!

Received a call from this number at 9:41am Arizona Time on 4/30/2015. There was background noise which to me emulated some sort of a call center. Since the contact was done on my work cell phone, I addressed myself, and repeated "Hello" twice, no one made a vocal sound. Call disconnected after a total of 11 seconds.

I just received a call from a man with a heavy foreign accent telling me the same thing told to everyone else (I will receive $9000 in grant money..blah blah blah). The first man I spoke with disconnected my call because he said he could not hear me. I dialed the number back so I could get as much information from them as possible to report it online so anyone reading this understand this scam has been going on for years. I received my first call about 8-9 years ago.

I called the 202-697-9105 number back after being disconnected the first time and spoke with another man with a foreign accent telling me he works for the US Grants Department. He repeated his spill about me getting the grant money and what it could be used for and not used for. He then called himself verifying my information (age, zip code, and marital status). I lied about everything and he said it matched his records. LOL! He then gave me a "confirmation" number and 315-314-3200 telephone number to call back in order for this "grant money" to be send to me.

recieved call @ 3:15pm est 4/30/15
He asked for a name of a man? I did not know person I told him he had wrong # he said No! I said yes! He hung up.

The telephone number and "dc" came up on my cell phone.  I did not answer....as i did not recognize the #.  It also said USA too.

I got a call from this number at 2:40PM on May 1, 2015. Nobody was there when I picked up, so I called back. The man that answered the phone had a thick Indian accent and was very rude. He barked in his thick accent, "What do you want?!" I said, "I dunno, you called me!", he then says, "No I didn't! What are you trying to pull?" or something to that affect. I asked him who he was, and he says to me, "I didn't call you! F@#$ you!", then he hung up. Albeit irritated getting cussed at by a complete stranger, I just brushed it off as no big deal, and didn't want to get involved. But I was curious enough to type in the number online, thus bringing me here... Whoever this random Indian man is, he seems like a real piece of sh*t.

Calls all the time and hangs up. Soannoying

My daughter got this same call from same Indian man with a heavy accent who told me his name was James Wilson.. Said the govt was giving free grant money and asked what she would use it on and proceeded to tell us what she couldn't use it on ...like illegal stuff and then asked if we wanted it sent western union or to our bank.. Haha

didn't answer the phone cause didn't reconize the number

Same here static then a man with rough voice I said hello twice he hung up. I did not call back. Beacause I have read other situations where if you do that's when you get a charge on your bill somehow they Benoit from this. It's best not to answer unknown numbers. If they know you they will leave a message. Blocked this number.

I get a call from a man with an Indian accent.  There was a lot of background noise, and he said he was from the US Federal Government.  He told me that because of a national survey I had done, I had won a one in a lifetime grant for $9000.  He said I needed to call 315-314-3033 with the code HF543, but the thing that tipped it off as a scam (besides the fact that the Feds do not call on the phone) was that he never asked me my name.  It seemed odd, but my dad who works for the government said it was definitely a scam, and I found this site with all of the other stories from the same caller.

This is a scam! I quickly googled the phone number while talking to a heavily accented Indian woman and found several posts delcaring similar situations to mine. Here's a link you might find helpful: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/if-the-us ... b57f_story.html

same experience. number from DC so I picked it up as I am in MD. given a number to call to claim my grant. never asked my name just my martial status, employtment status and age.

received a missed call on my cell phone, called it back and spoke to a lady with East India accent. Same spill as every else getting, 9,000 for being a good citizen. Of course I new it was a scam right away and called her on. She hung up on me.

I called back and got a male with same accent, decided to play along and and he reaffirmed that I qualified for being a good citizen. I then lied to him to see what he would say, and told him I had a couple of felonies 10 years ago, one for grand theft and one was for a robbery (again just a lie), he said if it happened 10 years ago, I still qualify as the survey was conducted 6 months ago.  I've explained that what I could spend the money on, no alcohol or illegal stuff. I asked if I could open up a marijuana store in Washington State since marijuana was legal there. He said "Yes".  I asked him it's okay even thought its Federally still illegal, the government would still let me spend the money on it. He said it would be fine.

just like everyone said i have received 2 missed calls from this number and when i called back the guy with the thick accent answered telling me he is a government agent and that ive been granted $5,000. i told him that i cant really understand his accent but he didnt really care. just kept going on and on with B.S and gave me a conformation number for the money and a phone number to call back. he asked about my age, zip code, marital status. i never called that number. it sounded like a scam. plus he sounded like a psycho

I got the same call. I knew it was a scam. He told me I would be getting $9,000 dollars from the government but I need to give him my full name, adress and social to him to confirm. I just hung up. He had a really thick accent and it was hard to understand him.

"202"  area  code  fraud scam  calls.........

addressed  and  noted  here  about a  billion  times  already  !!!!
thanks  !!!  added   this  number  to  the  list    !!!

fake  phone  number....as  usual  !!!.....most  cases    scammers  using    google  voice  /  skype   /  majic  jack  etc...... (  voip services  etc   )

NUMBERS   ARE   ALWAYS  FAKED /  SPOOFED...............THESE  ARE  FRAUD SCAMMERS  !!!!
( sorry  for the  long  list....but  people  have  to  know ! )

NOTE  :  similar  calls  now  coming  in  from the    " 209"  area  code  !!!   (  same  crap )

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ALSO IMPERSONATING   THE  US  GOV'T /  SEVERAL  GOV'T  OFFICES AND   PERSONS....BEWARE !!!

-  they  are   also  impersonating  DEA  officials  /  IRS  /  FAKE  LAW  FIRMS   etc....  with  threats  to  arrest you  unless  you  immediately  send money  via  wire   transfer /  western  union   to some   offshore  country  !!!!!   obvious  scam  !!!

some  are landlines...many  are  cell phones...some  are  spoofed  and  linked  to  offshore foreign call centers  /  countries !!!!
we've  traced  back  most  of  these  numbers  to  offshore  foreign    call centers mostly  in   INDIA /  THAILAND / AFRICA  /  JAMAICA  ETC....

here's a  few  other  numbers  posted  from  the   same  area  code  offering a  wide  variety  of  scams  /  fake  emails and  scams  after  posting  something  on   craigslist   (  old  scam  )  ...... collecting  for  non  existant  "  payday  loans "....free  money / scam  giveaways /  calling  on  behalf  of  a  humane  society..... $1,000's  in  free  gov't  money.........  etc  etc.....stories  change  out  all the  time......and  the  usual  nonsense!!!

**   mysteriously  call to  claim  they  have  several  thousand  of  dollars  to  send  you / give ....just  provide  your  bank  account and  credit  card   right  away   etc etc.........scam scam

several  of  these are  the  usual   long  ongoing  scams   such  as  :  you  have  won a  free  walmart /  bestbuy  gift  card....or  you  have  won a  free  ipad  etc......all  long  ongoing  scams............

some  OTHER    numbers scammers  are using  :    a  small list  of  hundreds  of  numbers  they  use  )  !!!

202-697-9105
202-666-7706
202-666-1824
202-666-1747
202-697-9308
202-111-0022 ( clearly  faked )
202-526-6721
202-551-1618
202-657-6583
202-666-1285
202-241-2375
202-239-1801
202-666-7822
202-239-8615
202-793-8675
202-697-9145
202-239-2226
202-506-8086
202-436-9939
202-241-8553
202-505-8086
202-241-8917
202-350-2716
202-666-1116
202-304-8101
202-506-9338
202-779-9626
202-241-8917
202-621-0770
202-657-6157
202-242-7889
202-407-9059

I recieved the call from a woman, same thing that has been happening with ya'll happend to me today.

Call came in ..... no one there?