The woman, whose name is Helen Carter and her ID is 113, called me with heavy indian accent in this afternoon. I usually do not answer the "unavailable" call but I did anyway. Since last week, I missed more than 10 calls of "unavailable", it seems like by the same person.
Ms. Helen told me that I was selected by the U.S. Government and they will give me $8000, instead, they at first would charge $257 as a processing fee. She promised they would put the money back on my account later.
She said my bank account has to be verified. She needed my Bank's routing# and account# and street address. After that, I no doubt checked the website, just typed "Government Grant Processing Center" and recognized what I did was so stupid. I guess most of the transaction they will charge $257 will be the next day so that I straightfowardly went to my bank and told them what exactly happened to me.
When I got a call was 1:08pm today and when I went to my bank was 3:10pm. I asked the bank manager and he checked no transaction has been done as far as today; and he froze my account so that nobody can take my money away.
I'm an international student and I was so stupid. But please be aware of this kind of fraud, including international students or residents!!
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