Hours ago I received a call from "Amber Williams" of First National Benefits. She told me that I qualified to receive a grant of up to $12,500 and that I would have to pay $29.95 for a processing fee, this was very unusual to me. However, I continued with the process but asked several questions along the way and all of her answers seemed legit until she insisted that I be recorded saying my name, address, account number, etc. I asked her why they were recording me, she said that it was for security reasons.
I asked her to elaborate and she wasn't able to explain to me how exactly it was that the recording kept me and my account safe. She did however insist that 90% of the people she talked to were leary of this. She then told me that if I wanted to I could call my bank once we were done and tell them about this, that I was only verifying $29.95 to be taken out, that I could go the their website, or that I could do a Google search of their company... As soon as she said that she said, "Oh, no, actually, don't do the search, just go to the website." That didn't register with me until I was half way through the recording process.
I did a google search and I got all these complaintss about the SOB'S! At that point, I told her stop the fu*ing recording, I don't want to do this cancel my sh*. At some point, she hung up on me, but then called me back and asked why I didn't want to do it. I told her it's a scam, at that point she hung up on me.
I then drove down to an ATM pulled as much money as possible out of my account and then I called my bank and but a freeze on my account. I'm lucky that I caught onto this as I was going through the process, too bad others haven't been as lucky.
Alycia
Salem, Oregon
U.S.A.
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