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March 20, 2005
Awareness
I as a senior citizen have (I am sure that you too) are aware that we have a duty to dig in our pockets and open our mouths for the sole purpose of preserving our Democratic party and especially democratic princples. I had the opportunity to hear Chris Bell at the meeting of the West Houston Democrats yesterday. He deserves Kudos for his effort to bring back the importance of ethical conduct in running our nation.
Also I want us all to be aware that a scam is being visited upon us via the telephone.
I got a call on Thursday. The caller said that I had been selected to receive an $8,000 grant from the government. The caller was using broken english and was quite hard to understand so I hung up. On saturday I got a call again, this time the offer was for only $5,000. I decided to have some fun. I asked where the call was coming from, the answer Florida. This caller's first language obviously was not English. The money according to the caller had to be deposited directly into my bank account. I pretended I didn't understand. Then she wanted to know my bank account number. I told her 99999. Immediately another caller took over. She spent sometime trying to get me not to let this opportunity pass. I recorded this but I had too much background noises on the tape. I said all this so that you will remind your friends to possibly expect this call and hang up so that you won't be tricked into giving out information that will only hurt you.
By the way they would have been very angry if they ever invaded my bank account.
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I got the same call about geting a FREE government grant. I acted very excited made him think I was really interested and managed to get the caller's name, address in Florida, and phone number. I reported it to the FBI, but apparently the FBI has done nothing if they are still making calls. My call was about two months ago.
Posted by: Ruth Davis at March 20, 2005 05:06 PM