I just reported the s***...My police department said to call the LTC and gave me a number to put a fraud alert on my ssn. because these people knew things already that i didnt tell them.. So im cool now!!! And im reporting them monday

I just had a woman call me today (202)657-4742 "ANNE JOHNSON" strong indian accent and said i have to pay 250.00 for a tranfer fee in order to have the money put on a card, she wouldnt give me any legal document or email address either. She said i would get a document after i tranfrred the money through western union. ...Wht a bluff!!! So watch out!!!! I gave them a cardnumber that is not active so please be aware!!!

gary taylor called me and told me he couldnt give any info on a website but i have a grant for 8400 he also promise to stay on the phone with me till i receive my money. he also told me i would be receiving a call from another lady. glad i look here before i called him back cuz he sounded really BOGUS!

he did the same to me, he called like 5 times after i told him he was a scammer & my boyfriend picked up 3 of those times but only spoke back when i answered the last time i answered he told me "F*** you, F*** you A***Hole !" I couldn't believe the nerve of this guy b/c i woudln't wire hm $120 for "charity" he called it ! so beware !

Yeah they can deff take ur money I'm batteling with my bank right now. I fell for it and did the same thing and now my bank account is over 890,000 overdrafted. Because of it.  Be carefull

Just received the same call from a "Gary Taylor." I suspected it to be a scam and hung up on him twice. I guess I made him angry and he called me about five times after that non-stop.

... I feel really stupid. I gave up all my information, and only THEN did I go online to look it up. What should I do? Can they take money out of my bank account if they have the number and routing number??? I was having a bad day and this just made it all the worse. I can't believe I fell for a stupid scam like that.

They are calling from a land line in Washington, DC. District of Columbia.
They also told me to call the Senior officer Kelly/Cally Johnson at (202)905-0682....
$7000 government grant will be deposited to my account, I gave a mastercard # of a net spend account that they could only deposit money on to....cause there was no money in it !!! hahaha
$100 dollar I had to deposit into the (stoner) Indo American Fund.
Nigga better go get a job.

This Californian has already been around the block... I'm gonna report there dumbasses right now.LOL

I got a call with the exact same thing! He said I was going to recieve a U.S. Government Grant. A one-time tax-free grant of $7,000. But before he said I could recieve that money I would have to go to my bank and take out the $100 and Western Union it to a "charity" (he specifically said it was for an 'Asian' charity) He had a strong Indian accent and I was very reluctant to give him my account info. And I told him I'd be calling my bank account to freeze it as soon as we got off the phone.  Then I went online to Google (Government Grant Scams) and litterally thousands of reports came up on ConsumerAffairs.com (or .gov?) not remembering.
Anyway, I had my bank info changed and I warned all my family and friends about this! So please DO NOT FALL FOR THIS!!!
wish you all well & safe!
-C.

i also gotten that call she gave me a grant # of jk501 and told me to call her once i went to a western union store so she could give me some info and it was 100 dollars for the money i did call her back she was laughing on the phone and stated that she wasn't doing anything wrong i told her i was calling the FBI on her a** and she just started to laugh like it was a joke ....Please don't give these ppl money or your info....

I just received a call from Gary Taylor 1-234-456-878. He told me I would be getting a deposit of $7000.00 also... Another Shady transaction.

Interesting I just got this call from 234-567-898 (1 number missing) and the offer was for  $15000.00 the accent was difficult to understand. I was very suspicious. Said he was calling from Washington D.C. Asked for the grant approval number and call back number but he said I could not get that until the call was completed and I told him how I wanted to recieve the money as I was 1 of 30,000 selected to recieve this grant. He needed by DOB so I gave him an arbritrary DOB and then he needed a visa or M-card. I remembered I had a gift card with zip on it so I gave that to him and he gave me 202-621-0045 to contact a Kelly Johnson and gave me a grant authorization #. Called Kelly but we got disconnected.....well well....what will they think of next.

just recieved this call. same process as the other person.  7000.00 grant. gave date of birth and
account number to my Navy Federal Credit Union Savings Account.  Sounded suspicious.

Just got this call and it seemed suspicious, I told her I dont have the money (I'm just a highschool kid with no job) and she said I have til the end of the month to call her back if I can get the money. It's definately not happening. I'm gonna report them to the hotline on the REAL Federal Reserve Bank in New York's hotline for scams involving their name, I suggest you do the same if this happens to you. On the good side, my birthday's next week and the guy told me happy birthday xD

I just received the call. Thank goodness for the word wide web! I am glad I found these posts! NO way Im falling for this one.  He's supposed to call me back in about 10 minutes after I have called back at the 202-621-0045 number to "verify" his authenticity! LOL.  No way I'm giving ths a-hole my checking account number....

this number called me it was a lady name michecal told me i been approved for a grant of 7000 dollers make a deposit of 100 to help the holmest and i did and i will have my money and the morning so that wasnt my checking accout info but i gave them a card that was prepaid and that called me that morning and told me it did not wokr cause it was over the max and told me to make another deposit of 349 dollers and that can seen me my money thought western union and i did like a fool then when i do that she tell me that can not seen my money because i did not put my middle name and wester union.

i got a call form them a men name john frank and he was the financel over the grants and i gave them all that money like a fool so beware of these ppl if u getting a grant that dont call you over the phone that seen papers and the mail i got a call from so many numbers it was crazy after i gave them my money i seen it was a scam watch out for them type of ppl and tell them to kiss your a**.

kelly johnson got mad at me when i ask her if this was a scam and hung up on me. I called back and asked her why the government wouldnt take the money after it cleared in my acct. she then told me that was the way they wanted it and i should get lost

this ppl called me asking alot of crap and told me they wer going to give me 7000 bigones all i needed to give them was my info yea right ... if u fall for this crap give me a call i need money too

Yeah I agree with everyone else in this case.
I got a call from a guy that said I was selected to recieve $7,000.00 into my account . I was supposed to follow up with Kelly Johnson with the number 1-202-261-0045. I was told to send a one time donation of $ 100.00 so before I left I checked it out on the net. I found out that it was nothing but a FRAUD..
  I automatically called Kelly Johnson back and told her to delete all my info. Then she asked who I was , so I told her. I told her straight up and cussed her out over the phone.. I told her that it was nothing but a F***ing Scam and she hung up on me.

So anyone that gets this call BEWARE it is a FRAUD and dont fall for it.

I CALLED THE FBI, AND TOLD KELLY JOHNSON,AND THE SO CALLED (GARY TAYLOR) CALLED ME BACK CLAIMING TO BE FBI I CALLED THEM FRAUDS THEY WERE VERY UP SET  TOLD ME THEY COULD CONTROL ME (YEA RIGHT) LETS SEE IF WE CAN REALLY FIND OUT WERE THEY ARE CALLING FROM!!!!!!!!!!!! AND EXPOSE THEM

I called the Kelly Johnson back just for curiosity sake.  She did not ask for any additional information, which was good since I wasn't prepared to give any.  She told me that in order to send me my $7000 grant all I had to do was a make a one time donation of $100 to the Indo-American Charity in the form of a Western Union Speedpay, to help homeless children.  What a sweet concept.  If only it was legitimate.  When I told her I could not make that payment at this time she hung up on me.  I was so dissapointed I really thought I was going to get $7000 of free money....NOT!!!

I received a call from Gary taylor today  ..  Knew it was scam but just couldn't cut the call thinking of possibility to get free money .. he asked basic info like phone no address and DOB.

however, during the call i started searchin for the phone no he gave for call back ...after searchin tht no. online found this website ...

I told him about this as the call was goin on.. It was extremely funny ;) ... the reaction and the way he was defending himself ...

I actually just received the same phone call 1-000-000-000 from a Sophie Lopez ID# 97352. Was told that I was eligible for a grant for the amount of 7,000.00 for persons who pay there taxes on time and have never been arrested. My husband almost fell for it.. which I didn't i went straight to the the web and found this website along with some others made a few phone calls and found out that I was right! They to asked us for some basic info.. Address..D.O.B.. and if I would like to make a transfer. told them to send it by mail and she was fine with that.. then gave me this # 202-621-0045 to follow up with a Kelly Johnson.. DEF A SCAM!!! Becareful

This is actually a number given to me by the person who called me as a call back number to accept a  
$7000 government grant given to 1500 poeple per year. The number that came over my caller id was
000-000-0000(blocked) .The person took some basic info then asked how I wanted my government grant issued to me, by direct deposit or into my credit card. He,Gary Taylor(w/ a strong Indian accent)would not provide me with a web address and seemed to get upset that I wouldnt give him any of my account info. He finally hung up on me when I told him that he would get no further info from me until I had a website to see (4th or 5th time I asked for it). Watch out for this one.

They are calling from a land line in Washington, DC. District of Columbia.
They also told me to call the Senior officer Kelly/Cally Johnson at (202)905-0682....
$7000 government grant will be deposited to my account, I gave a mastercard # of a net spend account that they could only deposit money on to....cause there was no money in it !!! hahaha
$100 dollar I had to deposit into the (stoner) Indo American Fund.
N**** better go get a job.

This Californian has already been around the block... I'm gonna report there dumbasses right now.LOL

I also got the same call from this number asking me to send 100 dollars to a charity in order to receive $7000. They became upset when I tried to pay them by paypal or have them to deduct the $100 from the $7000 grant. Don't send these people anything or you will just be $100 poorer than you were the day before!

Got a call about 7000 free grant money, they just needed to varify my address and birthdate and if I was married, and working and had kids.  After that they would send the 7000 to a direct deposit band account. Oh I had to send 100 via Western Union to the Indo American Charity Agency.  After that the money would be funded to my account.  They had an old address, and asked to confirm my phone number, ask to confirm my birthday that they already had.  

Once the money was wired via Western Union to Indo American Charity Agency I would receive the 7000 dollars in grant money.  

Well I am not going to do this,  If you get a call from them, just say no.......SCAM ALERT