A simple Nigerian 419 'money box scam'. Old as the hills.

i didn't get a call i got several e-mails  1) stating he was a us soldier in iraq and needed to get his money out he wanted to tranfer it into my account so i should send my account info. 2) e-mail was nigerian saying i have a lum sum of money that needed to be transfered to me 3) now i have a e-mail saying that this is the FBI  with the cyber crime division and they noticed I'm one of the indiiduals that was chosen to receive money from nigerian banks they even calling me a beneficiary don't reponse to anyone but this certain person investigating. they lefted me this number that is located in washington 206-317-3913.  if i give my info to this email i will receive $250.00. hahaha think i'm that stupid if the FBI wants they can knock on my door. i'm not that stupid to respond to any of this emails. if i need or want money i can work for it in a legit way/ it's called a JOB!

I just got the same call today from the Demographic Grants department of the government.  They wanted me to go to Rite Aid to get a verification voucher.  Then I needed to call them so they could tell me what name to put the voucher in, but it's for $200 that I could use for anything I wanted.  The grant is for $7,000 but Western Union will give me $6,900.  After loading the $200 in the verification voucher, it would take 10 minutes for the western union code (MTCN which they gave me) to be activated and could get the money then.

I called Western Union and they said they have no tracking number for the MTCN they gave me.  I also mentioned they they needed me to get a verification voucher for $200 first.  Western Union said it is a SCAM!!!  Do not do this!!!!!!  

Interesting huh..............

I got this call. Could not even understand the guy who called me, got frustrated when I told him he was not getting personal information he was not happy with me. Told him to send me a check. He said he could not do that needed information .. This is a big scam'!!!!!! DONT give out personal information :

No.  It's a scam operated by Indians and various call-centers throughout  India.  Been going on for years.  They can't be busted because they are in India and the Indian government doesn't really to a good job in shutting them down.

No its not.. It is a scam operation. A lot of these scammers doing this are in foreign country's and out of our reach..  Exaggerate much?

To report the fraud, go here:
http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/support/general-support/grant-fraud.html
Their number is listed , along with an email address, at the top of the page.
Also here:
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0113-government-grant-scams

There is one thing true about this. They are really on the behalf of our Government! Other wise they would be busted by now. This is going on for how many years?..1000000000

I got the call and cancelled my Visa card info. When I told Veronica I was calling the better bussiness bureau she hung up on me

I just got the call too ! And i had to give them 280 that they were gunna get from my bank account . Icgave them a fake account and adress and all that. I was beliveing it thank god ! I didnt .

They called me and said the same abouts grant money he told me to hang up and call. 206-317-1292 and ask for deronica Johnson #scam

All you really got a call for was the chance to be scammed.  Good thing you did not fall for it.

just got a call today. Saying that I got a $7,000 free government grant

I just got a call today. Saying that I got a $7,000 free government grant. And I had to get a Green dot money pack card and put $260.00 on it to be able to receive this "FREE" grant money.

I just got this same thing today. Is there anyway i can get this money back? I am so sick of people scamming me out of money for school. I need a number so I can get my money back for my pre med schooling. If anyone has a number or any info for me to get my money back please let me know. Pre med is not cheap and i thought this was for my grant i applied for.

I too received a call from this number.
after i talked for  amusement for a few minutes they said i needed to send a $210.00
via western union to handle "BANK FEE'S"
i told them i didn't have any money an told them i would contact them when i got paid.
i did some more investigating, and called them back..
first i heard some weird message about making free calls to the U.S...
then called back an asked to speak with a manager it kinda threw the guy who answered off.
first thing i said when the manager got on the phone was
"just to let you know this call is being recorded for the investigation that is now going to be done on you & your company"
then the "manager" flipped out on me literally started screaming saying he was going to sue me, take all my money an i dont even know when else..

at this point i am furious.

I too received the "You're the lucky grant winner from the Fed!" call, and even with laughably bad and obvious scams, I tend to placate the caller in hopes of finding out some useful information to report to the authorities.

They're apparently nailing some incredibly naive people with this tactic, getting them to head to Western Union and make a "security deposit" of a couple hundred bucks to a US Government affiliate in... India.  Yes, of course.  We've outsourced our legitimate jobs there, why not the con artists as well.  I'm not sure I'd call them artists - this hoax was more like finger painting.

i got the same call but no results

i got the same message and right now its an aproval

I received a call saying I was selected to receive a $7000 grant, tax free, never needing to be repaid.
I was given this number to call, along with a "money ID" number, and a lady's name to speak with to have a certified check sent to my home address.  The initial call originated from a local number.  I checked with my Congressman's office, and they said it is a SCAM.  My call was the third one today to them about this. I called the number to gather more info on the scammers, and msg said it is a Magic Jack number, their box was full and they could not accept more msgs.