Kuamata
01-15-15, 07:30 PM
Lookin' out for ya'll and giving you a scam alert. Not reptile related, but may help ya.
So, I've been sitting at work just boredly fiddling with my games, and my phone suddenly rings. My caller ID pops up 'District of Columbia'. I think to myself,"Isn't that a bank?.. Maybe I applied for a loan there, or it's about one of my existing loans."... So, thinking this, I answer. A man with a heavy Indian accent answers and goes on how I've been selected to receive a $9,000 government grant, free of charge with no taxes because I pay my taxes, have no criminal record, and have not filed bankruptcy in the past 6 months. I fit all of that criteria, so I was hopeful maybe it was real and I could upgrade some things. Being an exotic animal enthusiast, there is always room for improvement, and they're often costly. So, I go along with it. He asked me how old I was, and then how would I like to receive my grant, with my debit/credit card or into my bank account. I picked the safer of the two, my bank account, since he did not have my access code, my date of birth, or social security. I gave him my account number routing number, and zip code. He then gave me an approval ID GO### and gave me a phone number to call and approve my grant. It was a 202 area code. They said they would be transferring this money from a bank in New York to my checking account.
I called the number and an Indian accented woman answered the phone and asked for an approval ID. I gave her my ID and she verified my name. She then said that the transfer will take 25 to 35 minutes to go through, but I first needed to go to a local CVS, Riteaid, Walgreens, etc to purchase a Green Dot Money Pak for $4.95 and load $200 for a security deposit. She said that the government would refund this money, making it a total of $9,200. She then asked me how soon I could get to my nearest Walgreens. I told her I don't know, I'm at work. She said something that I couldn't decipher because of her accent and then she asked how soon again. I told her the same thing, in a bit of an irritated tone. She was like,"Oh, you at work... So how soon?" At that point I yelled at her the same thing I'd now repeated three times. I was already suspicious about both representatives being foreign with very broken english, but asking for money and just being stupid was the final straw. I told her that I'll give them $200 when I see the money in my account. She then started to repeat herself and I hung up on her.
Rotten people. Preying on families and people's hopes. Preying on the poor and young adults trying to get started in the real world... preying on the desperate. I'd feel so awful if a poor family fell for this, spent the last bit of money they had or, even worse, forsook a bill or rent for these greedy savages and end up going hungry, without electricity, or facing eviction because of these pigs. Slimey rotten scumbags, need to be thrown in jail.
If you receive any call about a federal grant, just hang up and block the number. I'll be making a call to my bank in the morning, just to be safe.
So, I've been sitting at work just boredly fiddling with my games, and my phone suddenly rings. My caller ID pops up 'District of Columbia'. I think to myself,"Isn't that a bank?.. Maybe I applied for a loan there, or it's about one of my existing loans."... So, thinking this, I answer. A man with a heavy Indian accent answers and goes on how I've been selected to receive a $9,000 government grant, free of charge with no taxes because I pay my taxes, have no criminal record, and have not filed bankruptcy in the past 6 months. I fit all of that criteria, so I was hopeful maybe it was real and I could upgrade some things. Being an exotic animal enthusiast, there is always room for improvement, and they're often costly. So, I go along with it. He asked me how old I was, and then how would I like to receive my grant, with my debit/credit card or into my bank account. I picked the safer of the two, my bank account, since he did not have my access code, my date of birth, or social security. I gave him my account number routing number, and zip code. He then gave me an approval ID GO### and gave me a phone number to call and approve my grant. It was a 202 area code. They said they would be transferring this money from a bank in New York to my checking account.
I called the number and an Indian accented woman answered the phone and asked for an approval ID. I gave her my ID and she verified my name. She then said that the transfer will take 25 to 35 minutes to go through, but I first needed to go to a local CVS, Riteaid, Walgreens, etc to purchase a Green Dot Money Pak for $4.95 and load $200 for a security deposit. She said that the government would refund this money, making it a total of $9,200. She then asked me how soon I could get to my nearest Walgreens. I told her I don't know, I'm at work. She said something that I couldn't decipher because of her accent and then she asked how soon again. I told her the same thing, in a bit of an irritated tone. She was like,"Oh, you at work... So how soon?" At that point I yelled at her the same thing I'd now repeated three times. I was already suspicious about both representatives being foreign with very broken english, but asking for money and just being stupid was the final straw. I told her that I'll give them $200 when I see the money in my account. She then started to repeat herself and I hung up on her.
Rotten people. Preying on families and people's hopes. Preying on the poor and young adults trying to get started in the real world... preying on the desperate. I'd feel so awful if a poor family fell for this, spent the last bit of money they had or, even worse, forsook a bill or rent for these greedy savages and end up going hungry, without electricity, or facing eviction because of these pigs. Slimey rotten scumbags, need to be thrown in jail.
If you receive any call about a federal grant, just hang up and block the number. I'll be making a call to my bank in the morning, just to be safe.