This man under the name of Sam Peterson is continually calling my phone trying to get my account number, and is saying he is from Nationwide. He will be calling my phone tomorrow at 2:00. They are scamming people and they need to be stopped please. If there is anything you can do to stop these people from draining people's account and stealing their identies, I would appreciate your assistance. Thank you very much.

Shaina E. Jonas

the asked for my bank account# stating that i was going to recieve us government refund direct deposit to my account $500 for the next 6 months. that i would recieve the first 500 friday the 7th and on the 1st of each month April-August
who are they?

They call you to tell you that the Federal Government will give you a grant of $5000 directly deposited in your account and all you need to do is tell them your Hudson City account number.

Someone guy called me today but was a little hard to understand because he had a foreign accent.  He
said  that I was going to get 5000 dollars from the government and asked what I'd like to spend it on?  I said that I didn't know.  I was suspicous because you don't get anything for free.
I hung up on him and he called right back and said you don't have to do anything to get this money.  He then had me verify my address and then asked for my birthdate.  He said that he needed to make sure that
I was old enough for the money to be send to me.  I told him that I don't give out that kind of information
and hung up a second time.  Maybe I should have made up a birthdate and then waited to see what other
information he would ask for.  He hasn't called back.  He was getting a little irate with me though because
I wasn't being real respecful and didn't fall for his scam.  I am pretty sure that it was a scam.

I got a call from a george from jacksonville fl supposedly. Well basically same as above but they said it could be done thru western union all i had to do was send them $200 and they would give me $5200. After 3 days of talking to many people the talked me into it. I figured $200 4 $5000b i'll try it even tho it seemed unreal. I sent $200 and got the runaround. Well i had a # that people pick up at certain times of the day. I kept calling and asking for Jose Cruz cuz thats who did the transaction from western union. Well long story short i got ripped off and now that Julia, Chris Ramos, and Jerry Wilkinson call me saying its $484 to get $5700 and they will make it $284 cuz i pd $200 already and that Jose was fired cuz he didnt tell me about the fee for some govt stamp that needed to be on the enevelope i would recieve. There seems like there has to be a way to find these people. Now i call 2537850194 and mess with them everyday i get a chance. Also Julia# is 8768722001. i hope these people rot in hell 4 what they are doing. Nationwide Grants is 4 sure a scam.

Not from this phone number, but...

Indian-sounding dude called me asking for things; got as far as 4 last digits of SSN (stupid me gave it), tried to get my bank account number, I aborted the call and registered my SSN as potentially stolen with the credit bureaus.

Said he was from nationwide grants, tried to pass his name off as "Alex R. White".  Gave me 250-483-0351 and told me to call him back in half an hour, which suggests to me a burner number, which means I probably don't have the time to get the FBI on this.  He called me back and I told him to please delete all my information (like that will happen, but you never know).

Keywords: 250-xxx-xxxx; Nationwide Grants; Indian; Middle Eastern; American-sounding name;

[that's for the search engines to pick up on]

Yeah they called me 4 months ago and they were supposed to give me the money i gave them my account number and everything and they called me right now and they said the reason the didn't deposit it in my account because my account manager was out of the office he said now i have to deposit 210.00 western union and i will receive the check by tomorrow before noon my time than i keep telling him i'm not going to wetern union becaus eit is not a secure payment and he kept trying to conveince me that they were not a scam they wouldn't give me their customer care number until my paperwork was done he gave me this number and i put it in google while he was on the phone i said well on the internet it says your a scam he sounded all suprised and he said well i will call you back in half hour

If you call the number back that they give, 1-727--569-1538 you can get into the system with a code of 8111. If you press keys and play around eventually you get to a questionairre asking for you personal and checking account information. They also provide a Customer Service Number for and American Health Benefeits, 8666205482.... I called that number and got someone who didn't know what the Government program was, but they got kinda hostile..... hopefully we can find more information.

Yeah a man named michael called my cell phone from a restricted number and tryed to get my account # and routing number so that i would recieve 3500 dollars.

I have an update.   If you call that number, a valid code is 8111.   You can't do much from there.   But you can tie up their phone line.

Very much the same thing as everything above.   I got this guy to give me an address - 4161 West Brown Ave, Washington,DC 20432.   If you go to the USPS site, it will tell you that there is no such zip code.

If you want to scam the scammer, and you have the time, keep him on the phone for as long as possible.   Time is money for them.   If they are on the phone with you, they are not calling anyone else.  I just kept him talking, but gave him no information.

The "Fed Gov" Said I will get a $5000.00 Grant that I would never have to pay back.He said his name is David Campbell.

i am trying to get my homebased business off the ground and i applied for alot of grants in the past few month and when they called me saying i was approved and they just need me to verify some quick questions and i asked him his name he said it was micheal smith and he gave 772-569-1538 and but on my caller id it was 537-3820. please stop this people cause i looking for them and find them  you all ready know

PLEASE READ VERY IMPORTANT INFO!!!!!!!!!!!!ok they called me at work claiming they worked for the irs and were going to give me 5000 in grant money just cause i have never filled bankruptice i asked them if it was a scam as if they would tell me there accents were eastern and their names were sam peterson and them supposed manager i had asked to talk to was roddrict johnson very very very american sounding names for people with such thick accents i kept questioning them about everything almost beleiving them at some points the guy waited on the phone for me to check out their website which by the way if you go to their website nationwide grants.com and look at their contact us there is no info at all strange but i was still interested if you ask the irs about there policy they do not force direct deposit they do send checks so i asked the guy to send a check andhe replied they dont do that anymore as of last month ok so how about a prepaid visa no dice then he claimed the money would be transferd to the account within 2 hour free of charge yeah right he kept begging for the#s so i told him i dont know my number and would have to go to the bank to get it he said he would call back and he did and i told them it was closed so hes supposed to call back tomorow any know a way to scam the scammers or anything anyone want meto say to them post it before mar 21 08 and i will do my best because i would not want anyone to go through with this. PS also have benn scammed on ebay becareful about some of the paypal e-mails you recieve still have the suspect in contact anyone know how to catch him thanks

I recv'd the same call this morning. The person was Indian. First a female spoke to me,then passed me off to the verification dept.
Certainly a scam!

I got a call today from a middle easter/indian sounding man saying that I was getting $500 for 6 months from the federal gov. He said his name is Vincent Parkins. He said I was getting this money for paying my taxes on time and not having a criminal record.

I asked him to give me an address and I got 5401 Security BLVD, Baltimore, MD 21235. What confuses me is that the number I received was (727) 569-1538. Thats a Florida number. His workers number is CS92011.

I'm going to check with my bank about this.

A friend of ours just got this call on her cell phone and sad it was Keven Parker. Any one that calls for your Routing Number and account Number makes you know its a scam. Whitepages.com places as follows.

(727) 569-1538
Type: Land Line
Provider: US Lec Communications
Location: New Port Richey, FL

A friend of ours just got this call on her cell phone and sad it was Keven Parker. Any one that calls for your Routing Number and account Number makes you know its a scam. Whitepages.com places as follows.

(727) 569-1538
Type: Land Line
Provider: US Lec Communications
Location: New Port Richey, FL

THEY ALSO CALLED ME WITH THE SAME THING. THEY SOUND LIKE THEY WERE FROM THE MIDDLE EAST. THEY HAD MY NAME AND ADDRESS AND THEY HAD MY BIRTHDAY. THEY ASKED FOR THE LAST 4 OF MY SOCIAL AND THATS WHEN I WAS CURIOUS. THEY GAVE ME AN ADDRESS AND I TRIED TO PULL IT UP ON THE COMPUTER BUT IT NEVER CAME UP. THEN I PUT THIS NUMBER IN AND THIS IS WHAT I GOT. WHAT IN THE HELL ARE THEY DOING? IS THERE ANY WAY TO STOP THIS?

I received a call from 727-569-1538 this evening. I believe that who i was speaking to sounded of middle easter descent. There were two guys that i spoke to. At first i was very suspicious. But what was weird was that he had already known what my name was and my address (permanent). Than he asked me to verify my birthdate and then and bank routing number and account number. He said he was from firstcapital but was also from nationwide grants. That i had five thousand dollars and it would be deposited into my checking account once i gave them everything within two hours. I immediately began to question him as to what his name was and the address of the company and so forth. The following was information i was able to obtain, but is in no condition taken to be for real. His name was Sam Peterson employee number bet14142 and his where he was calling from was 113 Oscar Drive San Francison, CA 94114. I want to warn any and all people that see this not to give any information out to them. As it is apparently a group seeking to perform identity theft or fraud on an individual...

i too got a call from them-multiple calls, actually-on my cell over a couple of days-- from +419043426602, 1-904-342-6602, +9043426602.  i finally decided to answer and was fed the same line of bs.  i had decided to see how far i could go with the call out of curiosity, and was asked my bank name, city it is located, exact name on the account and for the deposit number.  when i asked what they meant by the deposit number he tried to sidetrack me by saying that he would like first the bank number.  i asked "routing number?" and he said yes, he then asked for a deposit number again, and i said "account number?" he said no, he isn't trying to get any of that sort of personal information from me, that will happen with the 'verifier' and proceded to ask repeatedly for the deposit number.  i said again about the routing number and he said the deposit number is the middle set of numbers at the bottom of my checks.  i said "oh, that is interesting, that is my acct #, prior to that-as on every check i have ever seen in my life-is the routing number" he quickly cut me off to ask for the first set of numbers first.  i again questioned the dep# and he frustratedly said he was not asking me for any sort of personal info!  i said i wasn't comfortable giving that info over the phone, and if he was for sure from the IRS i should be able to go to any office in person and verify whatever info was required. and asked him to direct me to the nearest office to my location and he said he didn't understand--why could we not just handle this info over the phone?  i said, ok how about you give me a number i can call you back at and got the 727.569.1538.  i asked for a way to contact him directly and was told that he was calling from a computer generated phone line from the IRS and if i would just hold on he would get me a ref.# to call with--as you all know, you don't get this number without giving you all the requested info...whatever!

I just got a call from them

They called my cell number about ten minutes ago and the number showed up on my caller ID as 102. They told me that I won $5000.00 from the government, and that it was a grant. They had my name and address and asked for my date of birth,account and routing number. I asked them questions such as how they got my information and they didnt answer. I told them to call me back in 10 minutes after I got the 727-569-1538 number from them.

yeah they just called me. a man who was obviously indian or middle eastern by the name of 'kevin anderson' from nevada asked for all sorts of personal information. i never gave it to him. he must think i'm stupid. i'm sure that they actually get away with scamming people, though. what i don't understand is with the patriot act in place, why aren't we tax-paying americans protected from these predators?

they call and tell you that the federal government wants to give you 2000.00 and that it will be deposited into your account by the morning.  but this is a scam...there is no way to call back this number because it will ask for a program code and the people who call you will not give you that number.