202-697-9205

My pops is a police officer. He told me never to give any info like that over the phone. The government ALWAYS works by mail, and an office that is run by the government doesn't have that much noise in the background. best way to calmly get them to stop bothering you is tell them you don't have an account and then...bam. done. They hang up. I asked where their office is and they said 200 s. Independence ave, Washington dc. Funny thing is, I'm going there next week. Calling their bluff. If it isn't legit, which i know it isn't, I should be going to a building that has never heard of that number before.

I am a kid and I got a call from the same people but a few different digits from that # and I thought it was legit and they had me call another # to confirm it and I was stupid enough to give them information so now I'm worried about what could happen. They told me to go to a store and ask the checkout person for a green dot money pac voucher then they said to put $180 on it but I told them I'm not interested anymore. What could happen if they know enough of info about me?

I got a call from a lady (caller ID 202-621-7457, unknown name) with a difficult to understand accent who said a got a $7000 grant from the government. She had most of my mailing address correct and gave me a confirmation number and a call back phone number of 202- 697-9659 for their senior accountant Mike Parker, who I am supposed to contact today so that I can receive my money.

Same kind of call from probably the same lady, with the same call back numbers.

Nothing but a complete rip off.

They belong in prison

these people are scammers messaging me to buy my vehicle that would cost probably ten times the vehicle to get to them LOL dummies

i just received a call from a lady with a Hindu accent telling me I was picked out of 15,000 people to receive a grant from the government and that I was going to receive 10,200 dollars I knew something was fishy about this [***]... Is there anything that we can really do about this?

I got a call today saying  I have  been chosen to receive a $7000.government grant ànd to call 202-697-9640 to follow instructions given. They wanted me to go to Western Union and send a one time payment. I hung up!

Just got a call today from the Federal Grant Dept. from "Helen Swifd" (yes, she spelled it letter by letter for me) from this number: 1-386-011-278 . She had an extremely thick accent and said I had been randomly selected to receive a federal grant that I could use for anything...house renovations, etc. I told her I didn't have phone minutes to use on the call and that if she found my phone number then she could find my email and just email me the information. She immediately hung up without saying another word....

Just called me with the same line and offered a cash option and to call the manager Lisa Ray at 202-697-9274 after another woman called me from 202-621-5429.

Had a call from this number today. The lady said I had won a $9000 government grant or raffle. She gave a confirmation number #st314. She gave the name Daisy Johnson and a fake ID number 42571. She said to call a man named William Watts.

Forgot to say she said she had picked me out of 15,000 people with no felonies or other record. Hmmmm I DO have a couple misdemeanors, so LOL.

I keep getting these calls every 20 minutes starting at 8 am until 6 pm. Have told them to quit calling and not interested and to remove me from call list. They do not care just keep it up. SICK OF THIS!! No use reporting as they call from several phone numbers and keep it up regardless.

They said I have to verify that I can payback the loan by putting money on a Green Dot card. Scam!

I received a call from what appeared to be labeled "private" on my phone.  The caller had a very thick accent, kind of like a South African accent.  He said that I won a grant for $9,200, and provided a special code number, and told me to call 202-697-9156 to claim my grant money.  I just had to play along because it was just to idiotic to ignore.

I called, gave them my special code number, and the man (also the same accent) on the call said to go to CVS, Walgreens, or Walmart, and to purchase a Greendot Money card for the amount of $210 that I could transfer to them via Paypal for the "processing fee", that would immediately get reimbursed when I received my grant money.  

They actually wanted me to transfer this $210 processing fee to them over Paypal before receiving my $9,200 grant.  You really can't make this stuff up...the sad fact is that I'm sure that there are people who actually fall for this scam.  People are so happy to hear about "free money", they will believe anything.  If it SOUNDS too good to be true, then it IS too good to be true.

Who do we report these calls to to get it stopped & these people shut down & put in jail??

I recieved a call from 0000000000 everyday  for about  two weeks i  finaly answeed today and they said i got a free grant for 9200 from the us goverment. I was giving a grant number and a phone number being the 202 number and was told to get in contact with sandra. I called the number and i told them i would like the grant.wired to my account using picture banking. She said it would take to long being the maximum deposit is 500 at a time thru picture banking. I opeb up my online banking and watched my  bank acoount go from 36 dollars to 536$ and then they asked for a security deposit. The deposit was 299$ i then said no ill pay the taxs and the withing fivw minutes all 500 + the 36 dollars of my.money were revoked. I went to the bank and they said it was taken out by a website called mygrantsnow.com . It took two weeks to be reimbursed alonh with all the strain of changing my information. Scam

Got a call. Answered. Said the same crap to me, didn't have my bank routing number and stupidly gave her just the account number. She gave me another number to call and set up the transfer. Heavy accents. Well, if they want the $15 out of my account go for it, try scamming ppl who actually have money. Honestly, if money was good I wouldn't have even gave af about a grant. I've recently applied for financial aid and was hopeful it was true. Well, hopefully I don't get screwed over for this...

I did the very same thing glad this site is here I blocked all calls from that area code lol

chris thanks for your post. these people are calling my daughter wanting money from her.  i just read her your post. now she understands what i was trying to tell her.  thank you so much.

These people claim to be the US Financial Grant Dept in Washington DC.  When I told them that I knew this was fraudulent, they hung up.