Ok. Well one day I received a phone call from a man telling me that I was Qualified to receive a government grant in the amount of $8,000 dollars. I was told that they were affiliated with the government and that my only requirement for this grant would be to pay $257.00 for a "processing fee" and I would recieve my grant shortly after.
The man told me he would need my bank account number just to verify that I have an account. He never said anything about taking the money out. I asked him to send some information on it because I wasn't convinced that this was a legit situation. Then finally after he told me a million times that he was affiliated with the government and that he could give me a number to call to verify it, I gave him my account number. He then said that the money would need to be paid in 30 days, and if I didnt pay, I would not recieve anything. All I would have to do is call that number and pay them. After all that, he asked me for a check number and I told him I did not plan on using a check for this.
About a month later $257.00 came out of my account in the form of a check with the check number "0000". The same day the money came out of my account, I called the company and told them I never verified the money be taken out of my account. I faught with the woman on the other line for a while and then she played back a portion of the phone conversation I had with the man where I gave him my account number and said I wasn't using a check. She replied with "sounds like you verified it to me".
After she played it back I asked her where the rest of the conversation was, and she told me she didn't have it. (which stated that I was to recieve the $8,000 grant and nothing else was required of me. I then talked to management and they told me there was no way to get my money back and the only thing I could do was send in this letter and "maybe" get my money back. Then when all else failed, I told them I was under 18 just to see what they would say (Im really over 18), and all the sudden they could send back my money right away. They said I would just have to send a copy proof of age to them. I then went to my bank and filed a form to get my money back, and they told me they would get it back for me, but after a week later, my bank told me their are to many problems going on with this company and that the likelyhook of getting my money back was very slim. PLEASE DO NOT GIVE ANY INFORMATION TO THIS COMPANY!'
Megan
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
U.S.A.
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