Government Grant Processing Center
Ripoff Telesolicitation Scam, $8000 Grant for $257 "Processing Fee" & Bank Details

7:30 A.M. On Thanksgiving Morning. What Government Department works on a Government Holiday? You have been selected to receive a Government Grant of $8,000 to do with whatever you wish... Start a new business, buy groceries... It's entirely up to you!

To issue you a security code, so that only you have access to the $8000, you need to pre-authorize a $257 payment, which will not fund for 10 days. We will then send you all the authorization forms in the mail for you to validate and check out the information. Who do you bank with?

... We cannot issue the security code until you authorize the check. You can put a stop order on it if you don't like it, because you have 10 days.

... No! We can't give you a contact address, phone number or any other information because this is a highly secure $30 Billion program and we don't want to become a target for fraud! (Ha!)

... Called the police on the other line: "We don't investigate telephone solicitation. Too much of it to deal with at a police level. We simply don't have the resources!"

... Give us you banking info, and we will give you a Government Customer Care #, and a contact number that you can call in with... No, we can't give you that number, because it's impossible to remember all the numbers for the various regions of the country, right? (They use that "right" a lot!) The computer generates that contact number, and your security code, after the pre-processing form is completed.

... No, we can't send you the forms for you to fill in, because the information is pre-printed on the form. We need that to generate the form.

Summary:
* A Government Department working on Thanksgiving?
* A person with a heavy foreign accent. Not proof, but disconcerting!
* A Government grant for no reason? Not a tax refund, small business development program, or anything... Just "the government decided to give away $30 billion. You can use it to buy groceries, or whatever!"
* No website to checkout.
* No other Government Department we can call to verify, or that they are accountable to!
* Unwilling to give out any contact info. No address, phone number, physical location, or whatever.
* Beligerent, argumentative and almost aggressive "pushiness"... All while saying, "I'm not here to argue with you!"
* ASKING FOR BANKING INFORMATION OVER THE PHONE!
* "Pay us... And we'll send you!"... Yeah, right!
* "You have been selected in a drawing"... Sorry buster, you forgot which scam you were working. That's the line for winning the Canadian Lottery. Governments don't do "drawings".
* Repetitive "script". Any question you ask, you just get exactly the same verbage over and over again... Like a stuck recording!

Here's the thing that gets me angry. If a thug tried to attack me, if I could, I would stop them in tracks so that they never attacked me or anyone else again. With this, I say, "Touch me and I'll deck you!"... And they say, "Okay!"... And go half a block down the street and mug some little old lady who can't protect herself... And steal her life savings! If I get suckered in because of my own stupidity... So be it! My fault for not being wise. But if someone is weak through little to no fault of their own... And they get ripped off... That is extremely unjust!

Company: Government Grant Processing Center
Country: USA
State: Florida
City: St Petersburg

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