Victim Location 79745
Total money lost $248.50
Type of a scam Government Grant
I received a call from what I thought could be the federal grant and Treasury Department to receive 9000 dollars so I try to follow up with the proceeds with Kathy and Steve steve is the senior manager extension 11 and Cathy is extension 125. They’re telling me that I was selected to receive $9,000 through Federal Pell Grant so they told me I had to pay a registration fee of 250 dollars. I followed up with the procedure for the registration I have my receipt for MoneyGram payment they had me send the registration fee to an officer named Nicole Thompson. This was the day before Thanksgiving. I’ve been on the phone with them they told me they were located in Washington they had me send the money from moneygram to Nicole Thompson located in North Carolina they said they were with the government agency and I didn’t have to worry. After I completed my registration of 200 and $50 to them they gave me a number to which was supposed to be there Federal Bank in Amherst New York from there I spoke with Daniel and Daniel told me that would be a $487 fee for state to state Bank cost. So I tried to do my own research and figure out if its legit or not so I asked to speak with another representative whose name is Darryl Dawson. At this point I feel like I need to search for answers because I don’t feel like there telling me the truth. So I contacted ScamPulse.com over the phone and they told me no government agency will ask me for money right up front. I still have my receipt for my registration fee I have a family to take care of and I don’t have time to waste with people getting over on me to send them money I’ve included all the names that I am acknowledged of also I have an email but I do not know how to load it. I will be contacting you guys back these people don’t need to keep being able to get over on people there with some kind of company called Global grouping their address is 418 Broadway Hollywood New York so far this is as much as information that I have on the scammers.