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I was contacted by a Williams Johnson via Facebook messenger claiming he is from BCDP United Nation Non-Profit Organization and I should send my name, address, age, phone, number, sex and email. He stated that I could receive money if I just send processing fee. Then he assured me it was legit. He called back and the guy had an foreign accent of an Afghanistanian and right away I knew it was a scam. I threated to turn this over to the FBI.
Remember, once you are asked to send money in order to received money, it is a scam. Do not be fooled by online scammers who make billions of dollars every year from their victims via these advance-fee scams.
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Same thing happened to me! I messed with them for a bit then turned them over to cash app since they we’re trying to commit fraud through them
Yeh samething, man I know account has been hacked " Shack Ryan ' and mentioned BCDP , saying all is entitled and he received 50,000 ... I mean straight up you know when you are talking to a person you know by the way they speak and say things so that's the give up for me plus the ' send money in order to get money " funny little people
Someone has hacked a friend who sent me something about this.
Just received a message from a friend through messenger about this program. Conversation sounded funny so I reported it to the owner. Nothing but a scam!
Be careful, there is a Joe Williams on facebook who is promoting this scam. Supposedly recommended by an ex-FBI friend who said he received $100.000 after paying $3000 verification fee. So......I ask my friend to pay the verification fee for me, and offered to give him back 300% on the money he would be advancing. No luck. He wouldn-t do it. A first class scam.
I did the same. They sure were not going to send me money to help get mine. Lol it’s so stupid
They tried to get me today!! I know better fortunately. I said I was going to report as spam and then I got blocked!!
John Fled , I gave 4000.00 in apple cards also my bank information he took everything, my only connect I had was a phone number 712-526-5621 now there is no dial tone; his email johnfled4rael-mail is no longer there.
Angela Gladwell --- Scammer
Also, they will some how heck someone else FB page look through their contact to pin down someone to target. They will then pretend to be that friend who you would trust and convince you to apply for this bogus a*s grant run your information and claim you qualify. That is when they will ask you to send money for processing fee to an email account. Please do not fall for this the last name this Con artist went by was Porter Wells.
How do you report the scam.?
The number was 6055196911 Robinson Frank; they found me on IG through a church friend, sad and I'm handicap. I trust God will take care of them.
Sarah Brown, attorney, Yeah I'll bet 401-889-4807, Jason Foxx Attorney 669-777-9347Lost money on this scam stopped at x*x last thing for delivery $3,000 [FOR IRS] FB friend of whom I never met in person paid money to help me supposedly. Last contact today 3/13 going on over several days. Amazon gift cards.Because of FB friend I fell for it. UNWISE.I still have the cards I sent them.
what do these people expect to get? I hope people look these things up before they respond, I did and it pointed me to your website, I figured it was a scam.
Hello. I was contacted by a 'friend' on messenger. **Kenny Atkins** He has began an online scam. He reached out to me regarding a program designed to aid certain groups or disadvantaged people. This is most definitely a scam. He contacted a family member of 'ours' in August of 2019 with the same request. He has managed to find out some of the family members and is trying to scam us. He has the same name of an existing family member. He has several family pic's and family 'friends' from Facebook. His photo does not match the family member that he is "supposedly portraying.I will be posting to my Facebook homepage/story alerting my family and friends that this has occurred.Our messages are below.** Here are Kenny Atkins' responses to me.**Chat Conversation StartYou're friends on FacebookWent to Eagle's Landing High SchoolLives in Anniston, AlabamaMon 2:16 PMSay hI to your new Facebook friend, Kenny.4:16 PM**Hello**How are you doing?I'm great. How are you?**Am fine doing great and excited todayWhat's got you excited?**I was just wondering if you heard anything about Better Community Development Program (BCDP)?No**The program is to improve the quality of life for low-income, underserved, disadvantaged and the assistance of those who are in need of money to pay bill,retired, deaf, worker, disable and old men and women. You didn't get any money from them?I don't know anything about it**I got 50,000 from them I don't believe such opportunity can ever exist to me until my bank verify the money and see its legal you don't need to pay it back and I think you can also apply too,Do you know how to get them?No** https://www.facebook.com/Bezzy-660312621050611/BezzyTV NetworkSend Message**Click on this link to message the agent that you are ready to claim your grant money**Do it now for me to put you throughWhy?What information would they need?Or, should I ask you what information you had to provide?**I gave them my full name and address to check if am eligible for it**Message her now to know if you are eligible for itI'll have to ponder on it for a little bit.**I want you to know that if this is not real and if I didn't got anything from them I wouldn't have asked you to go for it.Do I know of anyone (besides you) that has benefited from this program?Our mutual friends?**Should I send you her text number**The person that also got the money from themName and # will be fine.My question was, "Do you and I" have a mutual friend who benefited from this program?**Nope I said that beforeNo, you didn't day that.You offered to send a text # to me so that I could text her so she could tell me that "she also got the money from them"**202 852 9829I was wondering how ya'll sister and mom doin?Hello?
I received a call from a text from my aunt's account. It wasn't my aunt but a scam. I was asked to text this telephone number 1-559-245-9098. They almost got me. So please be careful with this number.
I have someone that is contacting me and asking for my Facebook information and they want me to send them an eBay card of $200 just to get $10,000,000. I'm not sure if this is a scam or not.
It is a scam. Once you are asked to send gift cards or money in order to receive money or a lottery prize, it is a scam.