Company called me from 877-546-8537. The told me that I had gotten a misc government grant of $12,500. I know there are scam calls out there so I thought I would mess with them and probe them a bit (make the riggle in their chairs). I told them I never applied for this-why me? They simply replied that it was a misc grant. [I think they are starting the believe their own words]. I like some one else in here use to tele-fund raise and we would get $ for UCLA. We would offer our alumn the option of having something mailed to them so we could review it and send in a check. So I told them to mail me information. They said they couldn't because things get lost in the mail all the time and people might not get their money. So finally she was saying they were credible and that she could give me her name address and website and phone number. So I asked for the web address and she told me it was www.firstnationalgrant.com. I asked her why it wasn't dot gov if it was infact governmental. She said okay I will call you in 5 mins and she hung up. I went to the site and it's nothing but an unmaintained site with no information-no access. So I typed this company into google and usacomplaints.com had other unfortuantes that fell for this. It is hard not to fall for it though. It's easy money. So strangly enough they called back in 5 mins-like they said they would. The operator never gave her name before, but I asked her if this was Dona (like I read in one of the usacomplaints.com reports) and she said-yes? (I was laughing inside-because it was all coming together) I then went on to say-Dona-I went to your site and nothing is there. I read about your group on usacomplaints.com and I want to know why you charge a $29 fee and $299 fee. (keep in mind she hadn't told me about this before when I just spoke with her-we didn't get that far) She went on to say it was a $29 fee and $299 processing. I said the people online said they got charged these fees and didn't get the $ you promised them. Why? She put someone else on the phone and I said who is this BoBa? I said you keep calling I told you not to call-take me off your list. If I say take me off your list-you must stop calling. Nothing-they hung up...
Bernie
private, California
U.S.A.
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