Friday November 25, a man named Alex Cooper called me and said i had been selected to receive a 7000 dollar government grant for paying bills on time and not having any bankruptcy. Im in very bad need of extra money to provide christmas for my wife and son along with being able to pay bills, so i guess his persuasion just sucked me right in. He then told me he was going to forward me to his supervisor, a man named Ben Taylor. Ben told me this was not a scam and that if i sent a 120 dollar processing fee then he could contact the federal reserve bank of New York to release the funds immediately. So I did. He then told me somebody from the bank would be contacting me to let me know the funds had been released. A woman named Katherine Smith called me and said she was with the federal reserve bank of New York and that she had talked with Ben and everything was setup to go but the bank was closing at that time so she didnt have time to process all the information. Saturday, november 26, Katherine calls me at 10.30 A.M. Central time and says that there is a fee of 389 dollars that i have to pay in order for her to release the funds. I went and sent the payment of $389 which came to $399 after the western union charge. I called her back with the mtcn number on the receipt and she said she released the funds which would take about 3 to 4 hours to post to my account. It never posted. Today, Monday November 28, Katherine called to say the transaction was denied 3 times so it was not able to post to my account so the only thing they could do was wire the money to me via western union. She said somebody would be contacting me from western union with the mtcn number so i could receive my funds. Around 1 pm, a man named Michael Brown called me and said he was ready to send the funds via western union but there was a processing fee of 925 dollars that i had to pay before i could receive the money. WOW!!! This is ridiculous and i will not pay that. If you do not send me that money, I will report you and everybody else i have talked to as a scam. He then said "okay that is fine I have nothing to worry about. You have a great day." And he hung up. Since then I have not been able to reach any of these people that i have talked to about this supposed grant win. I would really like the $389 and the $120 i paid out of the kindness of my heart to be refunded to me because i sent every dime i had to these people and got nothing but deeper in a hole because im a good person and these people have nothing better to do other than "rape" people of their money during an upcoming holiday season. I have no idea what I am going to do now about bills or christmas for my family.
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