(820) 500-2540

It all s****ed with a friendly conversation with a friend who I thought was a former board of trustee of where I worked. She s****ed private messaging me on Messenger about the Lion’s Club program that gives out free grant money, she said it doesn’t have to be paid back nor did I have to pay taxes on it. The program is called Lion’s International Foundation Grant. Once you take her bait, she will give you Donald George’s name and cell number of (820) 500-2450. She will convince you to text him. Once you text George, he will ask you for your name, and tell you to hold on while he searches their data base to see if you qualify. He will respond by saying congratulations, you just qualified for their $220,000 grant money, but first you have to give him the following information: your full name legal name, gender, age, mailing address, phone number. He then says, he will have to put all the information you just gave him into their data base. You will then get another text asking for you to text him a copy of your driver’s license front and back... by this time your heart will be beating so fast due to excitement. The last step is, he will ask you is for a payment of $2,200, and that’s when you’ll realize that you’ve just been scammed and will so ******! I made a few excuses of why it was taking me too long to pay the fee, because I was googling his phone number and asking where he was calling me from. While texting Donald George back and forth, the Facebook friend was also conversing with me to see if I needed help with the transaction. I then realized that they were of the same person because she was repeating everything Donald George was texting me. When I realized I was played a fool, I s****ed asking both of them pertinent questions that I could use to report them - asked the Facebook friend who referred her to the program, she said Anita Phil. I asked where was Anita from, she said Alaska, then Yukon and that she worked for CVS (I searched for an Anita Phil on FB, found a few, but none of them lived in Alaska). I then asked her if we could video chat, she said that she dropped her phone due to excitement when they delivered the $220,000 cash money to her house and that it wasn’t working. By this time, the scammers realized I was on to them and didn’t pressure me to proceed with the payment. Result - I had to file a fraudulent iden***y theft of my driver’s license with my local DMV, local police station, freeze all my credit report with Experian, and hoping that these *****s get caught if they ever try to apply for anything under my name. With the pandemic and uncertainty of what’s to happen next, I allowed myself to be taken advantage of, because I trusted the Facebook friend who I thought was the real person she was impersonating. I guess I’m the fool who just got scammed! Please know that I am deeply bothered by the fact that people are too lazy to get an actual job, but instead chooses to steal from decent people like me. Now that I have shared my story, I hope that you will not be the next target for these individuals.