Grant scam...info inside...

Mythian · 09-01-2010, 06:37 PM

Go to this site to find out how to block this number....866-556-6567 / 8665566567

I called the Secret Services Group to tell them about this 866-556-6567 number. These *******s had been calling me for two months. They would call almost every day at least two to three times a day. They would ask for verifcation of my school grant that I had applied for. I never applied for any such thing. These people are coming from India. If you get this number on your caller ID, block it right away.

These scams are the reason our economy is so horrible right now because suckers fall for it. I basicly told the little jerks to f-off and if they didn't they'd have a lawsuit up their butts.

Pass this around to all you know.

*edit* I just contacted the FCC and went to their site to file a complaint. If this phone number has come up in your caller ID, send in the complaint and keep doing this until someone out there puts this crap to an end!

~Tara

cherriesjubilee · 09-01-2010, 07:36 PM

Yeah, there are alot of those silly people around. They just want stuff.

Pikabubba · 09-01-2010, 08:10 PM

There are many more reasons why the economy is horrible....

Also just so you know, people who scam use a multitude of different numbers, not just those that are listed.

Mythian · 09-01-2010, 09:40 PM

Call number 4 today! Time: 5:39pm....off to the FCC to file another. Maybe I should call the FBI on this? Who else could I call?>

Sky Rocket · 09-01-2010, 11:30 PM

contact your local news paper - that will get the word out about them and warm others.

Also, if you talk to them, ask them all about their culture and where they are calling from. They can't/won't admit that they're calling from overseas. If you need some hindi bad words, I know a few

Here's a movie about Indian call centres -
John & Jane (2005) - Synopsis
and how their lives our changing because of their jobs. Turns out that a call centre job there makes about 3 times what another job might pay and are highly sought after. I'm fastincated by their lives.

Tikibirds · 09-02-2010, 09:47 AM

My grandmother would get those calls, saying I owed thousands of dollars for some type of school debt and if it wasnt paid in so many days I was going to jail. How they got her number AND linked it to me I dont know. We dont have the same last names and she lived in NY and me in alaska

DialgaBritesMom · 09-02-2010, 11:20 AM

On a yahoo groups email loop I'm on (a private one with geographically local members) , someone's gmail account somehow was hacked. EVeryone in her contact list, which included the group and any of us who correspond occasionally off-list with her, got a frantic, very authentic sounding email message "from her" stating that they (her family and she) were in, I think it was Manila? over that way somewhere, and all their ID, travelers checks money etc had been stolen *just as they were getting ready to leave for the airport* (OMG!), and without money, they couldn't leave the hotel to come home, and the hotel wouldn't let them leave without settling their debt. "Please can one of you, anyone wire us cash so we can get home"...A bunch of stuff like that. It was a hoax, but a very well written one (the panic sounded real, ya know?), and my first reaction was "Oh my god, girl!" and then my next was, well, waitaminnit, I know *her* family's not going to be in Manila...*ever*... LOL Point being, I'm skeptical of all such things, but it did grab even me for two seconds. Other point being, scams are alive and well in email land, too. *Sigh*

Pikabubba · 09-02-2010, 11:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Mythian

Call number 4 today! Time: 5:39pm....off to the FCC to file another. Maybe I should call the FBI on this? Who else could I call?>

....and what exactly would be reason to get the FBI involved?

darcerin · 09-02-2010, 12:13 PM

Um, I'd like to point out a few things...

There is no "Secret Service Group". There is the Secret Service, whose job is to protect the President of the United States and their families. It does NOT handle scams.

The FBI *might* be interested in this, but more than likely, they already have a group working on these cases. Calling them and telling them your getting these messages, when you haven't given them any information, is pointless.

You *could* call the FCC, but again, more than likely they have an investigation working on this, so again, it's probably pointless.

What you SHOULD do, right now, is call your phone company and either a) have the phone number blocked b) have your phone number changed. More than likely you WILL get a resolution with them far faster than you will with any government agency.

If they are calling your cell phone, and the number pops up, DON'T ANSWER IT. I get weird phone numbers calling my cell all the time, and I never answer them, simply because I know they're telemarketers or scammers. Simple as that.

Calling the major government groups is going to run you in circles, and frankly, they aren't going to care, and if you continue to call them, they have the right to hang up on YOU, or block you from calling again. Seriously, these people are way more invested than the murders South of the border right now than someone getting multiple scam phone calls, when you know darn well that you just need to hang up on them.

Willow · 09-02-2010, 02:46 PM

Darcerin said it all

I just have caller ID at home. That thing is a life saver.
And if it's on my cell, I never answer it if I don't recognize the number. If it's that important they will leave a message.