Scam Type
Government Grant Scam
Date Reported
2023-03-06 00:00:00
Victim Postal Code
44663
Total Dollars Lost
0
Scam Description
I had a friend request from a friend on my Facebook profile already. This friend which is a trusted old high school teacher must have had his profile hacked and copied and used to send out a duplicate friend request to everyone on his friends list to pose as him and promote a AHR government grant that can be applied for to help relieve a person and be able to use the monies however to help them in life. This stolen profile referred me to a mark Johnson which is supposed to be a representative for the AHR program and does have. Facebook profile promoting such a program. This individual using my old teachers profile provided a link to mark Johnson and then a conversation through texting back and forth proceeded which asked me to fill out a application one question at a time asking me for my information and pictures of my driver’s license and even pictures of a specially purchased debit card from a store which I chose dollar general to make that purchase for a debit card. This card has $50 loaded onto it and was for the purpose of identifying myself for the delivery of a AHR grant to my residence within 3 hours. The initial asking so called application fee was $1000, which I don’t have those kind of funds. They proceeded to harass me for the remainder of the $1000. There was pictures of the new debit card taken front and back just like my license and receipt of the debit card. They did notice I used my bank debit card to purchase this new debit card and proceeded to inquire about that and why I didn’t use that, I told them (the scammer) that I was asked to go purchase a new debit card for identification purposes and did and that my bank debit card had no more money on it and was used up for this new debit card purchased. This made them mad, oh well, I did verify the funds on the new debit card and noticed the fund are still there as of yesterday, I plan on using this debit card up and getting rid of it since that information is obviously in the wrong hands, I did get another friend request from my old high school teacher again, but this time his profile had no picture so I did not accept that friend request because I know that is not my old teacher.
