206-201-2051

got a call from a women stating she was from us federal grant and that i have been randomly selected to receive a free grant for $7500 and all i needed was to call 206-201-2051 and give my bank account number to have my money automatically wired into my account. of course i'm no fool. u don't get something for nothing and i of course didn't give out my info. then i called this number 3 times and hung up and it was a little fishy that the same guy kept picking up. don't u think that a department as big as the us federal grant would have more than one person answering as well as an automated system to pick up calls and transfer them to different departments? wouldn't u also think that the dept would have a 1-800 number. just needed to put up my experience so that others wouldn't be fooled into doing anything as stupid as giving out person info over the phone. hope this helps.

Hi got the same call. When I spoke to her she asked for my bank account info. I told her to just send a check. They already had my address somehow. She said I was supposed to call 206-201-2051 to finalize things and speak to a Paula Hadley. She asked me exactly what time I was going to call. That seemed fishy to me. She also gave me a grant approval number.

I wasn't able to call at the time I told her but called the next morning and got an answering machine that just said "The person your trying to reach is unavailable. Please leave a message"

Seems like a scam to me!

Same story has the first two.  If it sounds to go to be true it usually is.

My wife received a call to her cell phone today, July 14, 2009. The caller id gave the number as being 91336. She answered the phone and was informed that she had been approved for a government grant worth $7,000 because she had filed her taxes on time and hadn't filed for bankruptcy withing the last 6 months. The caller said that they were with the government and all she had to do was give them our bank account and routing number and then call 206-201-2051 and someone else would confirm and send the money directly to our account. Unfortunately, my wife gave the caller our information and then immediately called the given phone number. She received no answer or answering maching the first two times she tried the number. Later, she missed a call from the same caller id number and she called the 206 number again and finally got ahold of someone who said they would pull up her information and call her back. 3 hours later, someone called her back and informed her that the grant was approved and all she had to do was send $99 to the American Infant Indian Charity Foundation in New Delhi, India by way of Western Union to the care of Deepa Anand, who is the person in charge of the charity. This is the first that my wife had heard of the charity and that the approval of the grant was dependant upon her sending money to a charity. I know that government grants do not work that way, but my wife was a little more niave. They said that she was approved for the $7000 grant but they could not send the money to our account until she sent the money to charity. By this time I had come home from school and told my wife to end the phone call. However, she already gave them our account information and they were sure not to call her back until after the banks were closed. Tomorrow I will call my bank and inform them, but I fear it will be too late.

Same thing happened to me....they called like three times so i decided to hear him out...they said i was selected and approved for 7000 dollars and that i just have to give them my account info...i didn't and told them to send a check...but at the end he said to give my account info...i said no and then i called the call back number and i also hung up and called back several times and the same person answered every time...the number is similar to the us dept of hhr...so i looked up the us dept of grant( thats what they said they were) and nothing came up...also i looked up the charity (american indian charities foundation) which is in new dehli??? fishy right??? but they wont leave me alone so the next time they call its gonna be an interesting conversation lol

i am not sure what was the called id, but the phone number seems familiar and the story was the same!!!! my husband picked up the call and called me with a "good news" and i just google $7500 grant with a $99 donation to an indian charity and i saw this post. they also said that he was randomly selected becaues he is paying his taxes, etc. same story as described above. this can not be real. government would never ask you to send a check first and then give you $7500. i also did not find any information regarding this government grant... i can't believe that people like this exist.

I am a police officer in Ohio, I had a resident call me with a complaint that is similar to the ones above. Call from 91336 caller stated they were with the Dept. of Human Services and wanted to give them a grant for $7,000 and to call 509-315-2852. Caller did ask for bank account info. And wanted the last 4 of their SSN#. I would advise anyone not to give out any personal info over the phone regarding this caller and to help investigate this matter by calling the Federal Trade Commission at 1-877-382-4357 and reporting it.

I knew it was a scam from the get-go - to good to be true.  I played along for a while waiting for him to ask for my SS#, of course he wanted my bank account # first.  But to get paid by check, which of course will take longer, you had to give your SS#.  Yeah, right.  Sorry.  At least these scam artists could hire someone who spoke English.  They said to call 509-315-2852, their so called accounts dept.  & give them my grant # S2040.

i recieved a call yesterday.  the caller id said ++91336....the thick indian accent made it difficult to understand them, i talked to 2 people, one who claimed to be a supervisor....they told me i was selected to recieve a $7000 federal grant...i was selected out of 3,000 or 4,000 people to recieve this grant because i paid my taxes on time and had a clean criminal history...my criminal history is not clean and i haven't paid my taxes on time in awhile.  i used to work in telemarketing and i was a quality coach, and it is illegal for anyone calling you to ask you for your entire birthdate or any or all of your ssn.  so when he asked me, i told him he was breaking the law and he handed the phone off to his "supervisor"... the second gentlemen proceeded to try to reassure me that they worked for the government in a government office at: 200 Independence ave sw...Hubert. H. Humphrey building, which is a legitimate government building, however each office has a specific suite number, which i was not given...the phone number they gave me to verify that they were legitimate was 202-436-9005, which is a verizon network number in washington dc, however, if it was a legitimate government number, when searching that number, i would have found which office the number belongs to, which it did not.  This is my assumption.  scammers are hiring telemarketing firms from overseas, because they are not held liable by the fcc for their practices as well as working very cheaply, and there is little or no trail back to the scammer.  the basic program is no different from a standard legal telemarketing scheme, but it is two fold, 1: if you give them your birthdate and last 4 of your ssn, you just gave them access to all of your accounts, because that is all they need to get in them...most financial institutions now have passwords, so use them...no one will ever ask you for your password, except the bank, which you call....2: if you call the "accounts department"  and give them your account number for an "electronic deposit"  you just put a bullseye on your hard earned money, and gave them access with the previous call....most likely what will happen then, is your money is quickly offloaded to an account that can't be traced, and you don't get your money back.  the government does not give away money unless you ask for it, and that requires alot of time and paperwork before you even get a yes or no, and some more once they agree to give it to you.

Hi, I just received a phone call from 208-768-7989 (Leadore ID) and a woman with an accent told me she worked for the federal government and I was selected to receive $7000 from the govt due to the fact that I pay my taxes on time, no criminal history and had not filed banckruptcy in the past 6 mos.  She told me if I give her my bank account information that she could transfer the money within 1 hour.  I told her that was NOT going to happen.  She said that was the quickest way for my money to get into my account.  Told her again that was not going to happen.  She said that she could mail it and had my address. She asked for my birthdate and for the last 4 of my SS#.  I again told her no.  She then gave me my grant #KE171 and told me to call 202-559-7875 (Washington DC).  I decided to entertain the idea and to see exactly what these people were up to as I knew it was a scam.  So I called the DC # and a guy named "Mark" (yeah right! Habib was more like it!) answered the phone.  I gave him my "grant#" and he said he would pull my file and call me back in 10-15 min and hung up.  So I called the first number back and it came up as a Verizon Wireless Cell phone number.  I had all I could take and called the "Mark" number back.  After several times of calling and calling...Mark answered the phone!  I asked what did he think he was doing and what kind of idiot he thought I was.  He said that he didnt know what I was talking about and I told him that he knew exactly what I was saying and that this is the stuff that ends up on TV and in the police departments.  He told me that he was no longer going to talk to me and hung up.  They did try to call me back and I guess he realized that I was the person that just called him out on his scam and he hung up.  I did call my local police dept and my news channel to let people know of this scam, as in this day and age people are down on their luck and I just knew someone would fall for it.  So BEWARE AMERICA!

same thing happened to me as above...i tried to scam him back with a wrong receipt no to make him convince i made the donation, but he hung up...
the first no they called me ws frm +052583941 & the no they gave to call again for the grant was 202-657-6846
SO people please be beware of this [***]..

Same thing happened to me.

Call was for my wife, but they were willing to talk to me (how nice).

The lady (strong accent) told me that she was from the US government grant office and that my wife qualified for a $7000 government grant because she paid her taxes on time and had no criminal record. (I wonder if the caller would have qualified under those requirements? I think NOT!) She asked for a credit card or bank account in order to send the grant money. I told her to just cut a check for my wife and mail it.  She refused. I asked for her phone number and she refused. The caller ID came up "restricted".
The phone beeped (call waiting) so I toggled to the other line (it was my wife) and told here the scam call I was getting on the other line. When I hung up with my wife and went back to the scam call.... no one was there. Oooooh spookie!

I wonder if you receive the money. Cause i had the same calll with the same exponation but the aria code was 202 lolzz

I received a call like that a couple of days ago on my cell phone from this five digit number. When I answered it was this foreign man saying that i had been randomly selected to receive $7000. He already had my name, but not my full legal name, and my p.o.box address. He went on to say that since I've never filed for bankruptcy and pay my bills on time, which is not always true, i had been chosen for this federal grant. During the call we were disconnected and when I called back I got the same guy. Now, i work in a call center and if this is set up by the federal government then I would hope they would have more than enough people working this organization that when I call back I wouldn't get the exact same person that didn't even put me on hold and I heard them laughing and talking in the background. He gave me a number (202-621-0282) to call and finalize my grant process with a approval number (RK157) to identify my file as he put it. He told me to ask for James Willon and the guy that answered said his name was Robert. I asked him to speak with James and he said oh yea I'm James. He repeated the same things the other guy mentioned and added that before they send a check I would have to donate $99 to a charity. Right then and there I knew for sure it was a scam. I'm sure they've gotten many people with this but the way they were so unorganized and unbelievable they weren't going to get my hard earned $99. If someone gives you a opportunity like this and it seems too good to be true... google it and find out for sure before you just give out all your personal information.

Same story with me... Got a call at work telling me I was randomly selected to receive a $7k grant.  Before he could finish his spiel I asked for his number.  He gave me (202) 621-0045 and grant #BA321.  I knew right away that it was a scam - sad thing is, someone will fall for this.

Same story here. However the number this time was diffferent 206-855-6962. I knew that it's bogus and won't come true. I am wondering how can we be protective from them?

I got the same call today, told me I was getting a 7,000 grant, they had already knew my name and address then they asked me for my account info, was smart enough to not give it to them, so then I told them to mailed me the check, then they said the check will arrive within 6-7 business days..pretty weird, and sounds like a scan to me as well.

I got the same call, and refused to give out information.  I also told them to send a paper check.  The lady with the thick accent, who I could barely understand, referred me to a 202-621-0317 number to call the following day at 12:00 noon.  I thought that was odd, but who would turn down $7000 if it was legitimate?  So I called from work, and spoke to a "supervisor" who also had an accent, but was more easily understood than the 1st woman. She had to "pull up my file, and also had a Confirmation number.  Then she went into her explanation about the $99.00 donation to a charity via Western Union.  I asked her how I knew that I would get anything, once I sent them $99.00.  She said she assured me that they would send the money.  I told her I did not have $99.00 right now and would have to call her back after I got paid.  When I got back to my computer, I googled the information, to see if anyone else had a similar experience, or if the thing was legitimate.  Obviously, it is not.  I plan to take the other gentleman's suggestion and call the Federal Trade Commission.

i just got a call just now from this lady christy and her number is private she told me he US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT GRANT DEPARTMENT is giving me $10,000 because i pay my tax in time since i have been in america i have not pay a dime in tax to any grant hahahahahahahahahah she is SCAM juts stay off her lol...... they playing with the genius of computer ............ if they scratch out my address via site that there cup of tea i give no detail about my bank account  PLEASE SEND A CHECK I REQUESTED FOR.... lmao

i got same call called the bbb they said it a scam so beweare