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Complaint Review: First National Government Grant - Florida
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First National Government Grant
www.firstnationalgrant.com Florida, U.S.A.
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First National Government Grant ripoff grant scam boiler room making cold calls Florida
I received a call at 5:20 A.M. PST. The caller ID said "unavailable". The caller with a thick accent (possibly Hindi) told me I had been chosen at random to receive a government grant for $12,500.00. Red flags went up in my mind immediately, I decided to let the "fish run" and asked a few questions.
The caller said his name was Josh Thomas, he sounded like he was in a boiler room making cold calls. There were a lot of background callers and he didn't know my name. He claimed he was calling for "Becky" and repeated my number and asked me to confirm. I told him that he had been given the wrong number and he asked me for my name and insisted that he would give me the grant to spend anyway I like to "improve my life" and it didn't matter if I was "Becky" or not. He got agitated when I asked him if he was calling from India and got very defensive and told me he had no accent and he was in Florida. It bothered him that I didn't seem to care about the money and I was interested in calling him back and checking out more information about him and asked him for a website. He gave me a fake web address and probably a fake phone number. I never bothered to call. I googled the address and found this site.
Don't believe any of it, if it sounds too good to be true...it is. If they call me again I plan to tell them that I just won the lottery and would donate a million dollars to their cause if they give me their physical address, lawyers contact number and bank account information. All I can do is waste their time but maybe I can make them screw up with their greed and shut them down.
Anyway don't fall for it and let others know about this.
Frank
Tacoma, Washington
U.S.A.
The caller said his name was Josh Thomas, he sounded like he was in a boiler room making cold calls. There were a lot of background callers and he didn't know my name. He claimed he was calling for "Becky" and repeated my number and asked me to confirm. I told him that he had been given the wrong number and he asked me for my name and insisted that he would give me the grant to spend anyway I like to "improve my life" and it didn't matter if I was "Becky" or not. He got agitated when I asked him if he was calling from India and got very defensive and told me he had no accent and he was in Florida. It bothered him that I didn't seem to care about the money and I was interested in calling him back and checking out more information about him and asked him for a website. He gave me a fake web address and probably a fake phone number. I never bothered to call. I googled the address and found this site.
Don't believe any of it, if it sounds too good to be true...it is. If they call me again I plan to tell them that I just won the lottery and would donate a million dollars to their cause if they give me their physical address, lawyers contact number and bank account information. All I can do is waste their time but maybe I can make them screw up with their greed and shut them down.
Anyway don't fall for it and let others know about this.
Frank
Tacoma, Washington
U.S.A.
