Victim Location 39743
Type of a scam Advance Fee Loan
I accepted a friend request earlier from the name and profile picture of a person that I know. Soon after that so called person started messaging me (this interaction was on the Instagram app). She said she had received a government grant for $*** today and all she had to pay was the tracking fee. I was alarmed from the very start because this particular person I actually know personally and the way they were messaging me seemed very strange. Anyways she gave me a phone number of a New Jersey area code to text and I did, going along with it. I know personally that the govt will never allow an application to be filled out via text message. Anyways, they asked for name, address, phone number, birthday, and so on. I started going back thru the conversation and ended up in the end calling the real person whose ig acct it belonged to. They knew nothing about what was going on.