Victim Location 60440
Type of a scam Government Grant
On advice from a friend of mine I contacted Mark Taylor in regards to eligibility for a "free" $340,000.00 federal grant, money that does not to be paid back. ( People don’t just hand you that kind of money) He wanted me to send in $1000 processing fee and then they would send me my money. I asked questions that were not answered and he was really pushing for me to get my $1000 paid ASAP. He also said to keep the prize to myself until after I get the money so the IRS won’t get wind of it and make me pay taxes on it. Red flags all over the place. I went online to research them and finally found their pngage. I sent an email to the one they listed on their page and it came back as undeliverable (website may no longer be in existence). Then I tried to call and got no answer, I immediately received a text from him saying I couldn’t call, only text. I finally told him it was a scam and he "swore" it was legit.
I obviously sent no money but it makes me angry that these people try to scam others, especially those who are maybe naive to these scams or are not mentally aware enough understand these and they end up scammed!
I just wanted you to know this was going on so you could hopefully check it out