Ripped off in massachusetts. I recieved a phone call from a lady named Jessica ID # 701014 from Advantage America on 11/07/05. I should of known, that something wasn't right when the caller ID read UNKNOWN NAME, UNKNOWN NUMBER, but didn't think. This lady proceeded to tell me that I was going to recieve a $12,500.00 grant from the U.S. Government, and that I would be recieving all of the necessary paper work in the mail with in 48 hours, all I had to do was pay a processing fee of $49.95, and then the money would be in MY MOTHERS account on Friday November 11. (I used my mothers account because I don't have my own.)
My mother felt that it was a scam, after me giving them all of her information, and decided to call on 11/08/05, and find out what was going on. Well, she was told everything different then what I was told, the half dozen times I had called on 11/08/05. Which then I found out that I would be waiting 3 months to 6 months before the money would actually be in the account.
I called them back, telling them to cancel, that I wasn't going to do it, that they were no good, lying, scam artists, and that they better not take the $49.95 out of the account as the money in there wasn't mine, that it was my mothers, and that if they did, they would be going to court.
I notified the Massachusetts State Police, My local police department, and the Better Business Bureau in Springfield Massachusetts. We need to stop these rotton thiefs. If you recieve a phone call from these people, please hangup on them don't be a victim like the my self and several others who have already been reeled in by these people.
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