Thursday, December 29, 2005

Government Grant Scam!!!

Just wanted to warn everyone about a scam that is getting around the USA this year. It seems to be one guy that does all the calling. He has a middle eastern accent, and is pretty hard to understand. He is offering government grants and tries to get your bank routing number or wants you to verify your routing number. He wants you to agree to this so he can charge you a fee, but he isn't always upfront about the fee and it is from $50-130.00. The grant amount seems to be the same, $12,500 is the amount he is offering. Whatever you do, DON"T GIVE HIM ANYTHING!!!! The better Business Burrow in FL has over 300 complains about him, so people have fell for this. I sniffed him out and when it was all said and done we told him we were rich and we didn't need the money and to give it to the victims of Hurricane Katrina!

Two big points here why this not real. Number one the government is not, for any reason just going to call you and say, "Hey, we have this extra money laying around, do you want some?" And number two, a grant is FREE, it doesn't cost anything!!! Accept for the work that goes into hunting one down, because it isn't easy to get your hands on free money! I've talked to a few people that I know in PA and they all remember getting a call like this!! If you want to lead the guy on to try to get info out of him, so we can give it to the proper authorities, fine, but DON"T GIVE HIM YOUR INFO!!!!!

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