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Attorney General Warns Missourians on Grant Scam
Posted on Feb 5, 2006 by Tom Fragala
Attorney General Jay Nixon wants Missouri consumers not to be fooled by con artists offering government grant money over the phone. Missourians are calling Nixon's Consumer Protection Hotline every day to report the identity theft scam.
Consumers are called and told they have won a grant from the federal government but need to pay a fee of approximately $5. The caller asks the consumer for bank account information to collect the fee. There is no grant, Nixon said, and the consumer finds that a much larger amount of money has been withdrawn from the account.
"This is yet another scam where a con artist tries to get people to let their guard down and give up their personal information," Nixon said. "Consumers should never give up Social Security or account numbers unless they have initiated the contact and know they're dealing with a legitimate organization."
More: Kansas City infoZine.
Categories: idtheft, identitytheft, scam, fraudFiled under: Identity Theft
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