Federal Reserve Bank
Complaint 278084 Details

I received phone calls at numbers from 210-249-0540 from a female asking me if I was employed or unemployed and asked if I was attending school. I told her unemployed and she said I had been selected to be given a grant because of my clean record and asked me how I would spend the money, I said for school and she then oddly said she wanted to make sure I wasn't going to use it for any criminal acts or drug us. I was then told I was approved for a federal grant for the amount of $10,000. I was given an approval number and told I would get a phone call back from Dave at 202-241-4094. Dave told me to get a "Greendot Money Pak" because I needed to pay 181.00 for a transfer fee for them to deposit the $10,000 grant into my account. After I bought the card I had to call Dave back and gave him the card number on the back and he then told me I would be receiving a phone call in 20-30 minutes and would have to give them "a security" code which he had just given me. I then received a phone call from Kevin at 202-241-4219. Kevin verified my banking info, and then said the grant would be deposited to my account within 30-40 minutes and I would need to call him back after I received it. End of story, no money ever came and I looked into this and it appears that this is an ongoing scam. I don't understand how the Government has not caught up with these people yet...