"Federal Government Selected 1500 Citizens to be Awarded a $9000 Grant" Scam

I too, had this to happen. The 1st that called was a J Williams, but you know it isn't at a 919 896 8094 phone number. His accent was hella strong. He says to me,, you qualified and was chosen to receive $9000. 1500 people across The US was chosen. Criteria, not filing for bankruptcy, paying bills on time, single parents, people with low or no income, etc. Then he asks how would I like my money..my bank acct or Western Union/ Money gram? I sat Western Union. The whole time totally not believing. He says get a pen and paper. Write down a code🙄VY301 and call 202 709 7492. I am like here we go, I called and blocked my number another guy JOHN WALLACE. He gets uneasy bc he can't see my number. He asks what is my number.
I tell him it always comes up restricted. He goes on,
tells me to go to Walmart Walgreens or CVS, to call when I am in the parking lot. Tgat I would need to send $200. So I ask what dept was he calling from? He says some dept, but different from J Williams at prior number, w a 919 area code. So I tell him that the other guy said US Dept of Treasury. He says he was in verifications. I tell him I am an FBI agent 😉 He hangs up on me 🤣 I call again, blocking my number, he says my 1st name and says I am waisting his time and to not call back 😄😅, I tell him that he is a scammer and that he is going to be arrested. It's sad people lie and actually gain from these scams. I feel sorry for the elderly or the mentally challenged that may actually believe and/or naive youths.

Rec'd phone call from 202 650 0557 c/o "jenny" requesting 200.00 via western union or money gram for the purpose of registering my name with federal reserve bank for payment activation of 9000.00 grant monies to be paid via western union with the promise that the 200.00 would be reimbursed for a grand total of 9200.oo. I am supposed to call him back within the hour to have him "walk me thru" the process once I reach the store parking lot.

Rec'd phone call from 646 389 0203 c/o "Kim" requesting 200.00 via western union or money gram for the purpose of registering my fame with federal reserve bank for payment activation of 9000.00 grant monies to be deposited onto my debit card directly after doing so. in fact I am supposed to call her back within the hour to have her "walk me thru" the process once i reach the store... -anonymous from Denver, co.

I received a phone call from some verification officer of randomly selected 1500 tax paying citizens to receive $9,000 from the Federal Reserve. Jeff Morris Ext 1122 (202-813-9390) will provide a tax-free gift to me after I generate a registration number by purchasing a registration card at Walmart or dollar store and put 200 dollars on it. Some reasoning regarding tax-free id need. 1 time Federal Bank of NY providing this 9000 tax-free cash through western union.

I live in Lindenhurst and for the last couple of days people with a Washington DC phone number have been bothering me,I finally talked to them and they told me that the government was going to give me 9000 dollars, all I had to do is give my bank account numbers to them so they could transfer money to me.
I told them I was born at night but not last night and hung up watch your selves out there people

Just had the phone call about the $9,000 grant from the federal government. Than I was one of 1,500 people in the US to be chosen for the grant.
I did not wait for them to ask me to send any money. Just told them to send the check to me and I will decide what I want to do with it. Then I hung up.

2 phone calls today from heavily-accented people telling me of my good fortune. Told them Trump would gladly steal $9000 from me, but never give it to me.

I received a call today (3/12/18) from a thickly accented woman telling me I have been selected to receive $9000 from the US government in the form of a nonrepayable grant. She gave me a "code" number and a phone number to call to "claim" my number.
I was born at night but not last night! I could smell scam all over this. There was no name on the phone just a number.
Why would our country give out grants for no reason, AND use a foreign person to notify me? SCAM! SCAM! SCAM!

I received that call today at work, I ask why would the government give me 9000 in grant money, she explained with her India voice, she gave me a number to call 360 203 0371, and Grant #AN171,
I hung up and told a coworker, we laughed about it being a scam, so first thing I did was goggle it, I love google, if the government was going to give you 9,000 free money, they would send you a CHECK! Period, please beware of these thieves. Ms. One of the sharpest knives in the drawer.

Omg, this is so crazy to me because today I did something so stupid that I really send them $200, and on top of that they wanted me to come up with an extra 500 once I send the 500 I was going to receive my money. But now that I come on this page it gives me a wake-up call thanks a lot so mad that I didn't see this before after I already sent him $200. SMH, shame on me and shame on them for lying. It has to be a way that I can get this money back. I just don't know how.

I have been getting calls allday today; the first offered 8000, the latest offer was 9200 which I am to call at 1-202-888-167. When I get to Walmart they said I would receive the money at the cash Center in Walmart; they also gave me a grant i.d. MM531 to give to the person I talk with in the morning. Sounds too good to be true.
Also on the earlier call I got a grant i.d. of AC502 and phone number 1-206-596-0969 that 's 17200 in grant's in one day doing pretty good if it were true. Walter.