206-905-1150

I got a call saying I won a $9000.00 grant and all I had to do was call this # with a bogus reference # they gave me to get it. The kicker is they want u to send $200.00 for a "fee" and they want u to direct deposit your so called winnings in your bank. NEVER EVER do that!! SCAM!! I played along for a little while and lied about my age. He (foreign accent) did not catch it. All these people need is jail time!!

My daughter received a call the number was blocked. I stated I was my daughter and said could I call you back.  The person talking could hardly speak English. Had a foreign accent. Gave me a reference # to call back with and said she was getting federal grant money from the Federal Grant Department in Washington DC on SW street. The could not send me anything in writing just gave me the number. I called the number after hours and it said. The party you are trying to reach is not available again the voicemail was a foreign accent. No government agency answers in such a unprofessional way. Also the always have a paper trail. Bogus. They did say something  about how depositing it into your personal accounts. Beware

5/12/15 5:32 PM Eastern.  I just received the same call from the Federal Grant Department in Washington DC as everyone else and ran the number in search.  Came up with this site.  They told me  $9,600.  What a joke.  I told them that no one gets access to my checking account or credit cards period!  She again repeated that I should call this number and they would work something out!  LOL.  Please beware everyone!!!

Spam for sure, the said they were from US Federal Grant Department and start asking for my info, I told them I could not give my info over the phone, but they insist so BE CAREFUL.

It is a scam.
The government does not offer grants to individuals for personal use.
It is a scam ran by off shore con artists to trick you into sending unrecoverable money to them.
They will say you need to get prepaid money cards, like Green Dot and load them with you own money or to wire transfer funds via companies like Western Union. Once you give the details from the card to the scammer, they clean out the card. Once you wire transfer money, you can not recover it.
You loose your money, you get nothing.

The only legitimate avenue for government grants is through www.grants.gov which is the official US government web site for grants.
From their FAQ concerning fraud:
http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/support/general-support/grant-fraud.html

Please note the following:

No government grant-making agency will make phone calls; send email or letters to solicit money or personal banking information from a potential grant recipient.
There are no processing fees for federal grants.
Federal grants are not issued for personal use, but are intended for institutions and non-profits to carry out projects with a public purpose.
Know who you're dealing with on the web.  Scam artists will often post a website with a name similar to a legitimate site.
If you have provided personal banking information to anyone claiming to be associated with a Federal grant agency, call your bank immediately to prevent unauthorized access to your account.

If you receive a call, mail, email, FAX, or any other form of communication soliciting you for a grant, STOP.
It is a scam.
Report it to the FTC:
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0113-government-grant-scams

File a complaint with the FTC. If you think you may have been a victim of a government grant scam, file a complaint with the FTC online https://ftccomplaintassistant.gov/ , or call toll-free, 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357); TTY: 1-866-653-4261. The FTC enters Internet, telemarketing, identity theft, and other fraud-related complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure online database available to hundreds of civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad.

All foreign accents very hard to understand. This is very upsetting, I don't have extra of anything and if the call I made back costs me it will really hurt my finances. How do these people get away with this crap. I would hope the U.S. government would at least hire someone who speaks better ENGLISH! They called me from this #416-364-1111! I hope something is done about these people!

I got the same call but told them if they wanted to give me money to send a check in the mail because I don't give out my personal banking info out to anyone on the phone...such a scam!!!!

Received call from badly-accented (Philippines?) woman who spent 22 minutes lying about me getting grant for 'being good honest citizen person', I lied about all verification info, she kept trying to get me to say 'yes' but I refused, she gave me a ph# of 206-905-1150 which of course is answered by same liar who hung up when she realized I was the same person who for 22 min had called her a liar and a thief and that I knew she was not giving away money but was trying to steal.

I just got the call aswell, they have tried numerous times about a fake grant. ..

They have moved up a notch....Now it is from the Human Health Services with the U.S. Government.....I would not give them personal info.....my application package was being sent to me via western union once I sent the $200 application fee that was refundable.....to receive my $9.200.  I questioned that a person never had to pay any kind of money for any kind of program grant or otherwise from the government and was urged to call the number given along with the ID#, Unfortunately their will be people who fall for this......how sad.