Victim Location 79065
Total money lost $300,000
Type of a scam Government Grant
To receive the grant you have to purchase gift cards of their choosing and scratch them off and send pictures to them so they can cash them. This is supposedly paying for their services to get you that grant. Everything costs something and sometimes the cards aren’t good and you have to purchase more to replace them. You do this long enough, you are out a lot of money.
Had one man- Roland, who had me charging up my credit cards so he could put the money on my cards and pay them off and then deposit the grant to my card to spend. I had to go bankrupt because before I knew it, I had charged $125,000 to my cards and maxed them all out. Couldn’t pay anything but minimum payment and interest was high. Paying that all back through bankruptcy and it will take 5 years to pay off. Everything they supposedly do for you to get the money sent to you costs a lot. This last one that scared me was they opened a checking account to be able to deposit my grant into it. However, they ordered the checks and had them sent to me. I was to write one check for $4,500 and the second one for $5000 and deposit both into my checking account locally. The checks happen to have the same account if the parent company that owns our newspaper in Pampa. They reported it to their company and was told by a policeman that they wanted to press charges. If they followed through, I would have been put in jail. Not only that, they had someone withdraw that money from my account and send it overseas. Fortunately my bank stopped it and got the money back to the company it belongs to and that fixed that problem. However my bank says CIA is still investigating my account for sending it overseas and I did not do that. They did. So I’m still waiting to hear from the police hopefully that they have dropped all charges. Don’t know yet. This has been going on for 3 1/2 years and I have lost a lot of money and time. Wish I had listened to people’s warnings. ??. Causing me much pain.