A new wrinkle in an old scam makes it very dangerous

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Consumer Affairs - 5/9/2017 - Mark Huffman - The 'man with the heavy foreign accent' getting help from a Facebook friend. Millions of consumers are victimized each year by scams, large and small. The remarkable thing about these criminal schemes is their longevity. They have been around, it seems, forever. Take the government grant scam, for example. In this scam a caller pretends to be from the government, telling the victim they are receiving a grant of several thousand dollars, even though they never applied for it. In March, Andrea, of Wedowee, Ala., got such a call. "I received a call, the caller ID said Washington, DC," Angela wrote in a ConsumerAffairs post. "A man with a heavy foreign accent said I was selected to receive a $10,000 government grant. I asked why. He preceded to tell me because I file my taxes on time, pay my taxes on time and have excellent credit, therefore I am eligible for the grant." Read more @ https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/a- ... 50917.html