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BRIEF: Man offered $7,000 in phone scamApr 10, 2010 (St. Cloud Times - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- St. Cloud police are asking residents to report suspicious telephone activity after an attempted phone scam. The scam was reported about 7 p.m. Friday. A 55-year-old St. Cloud man told police a man with a Middle Eastern accent called him requesting his checking account number in order to give him a $7,000 grant from the government. The suspicious caller identified the complainant by his first and last name, according to a St. Cloud police report. The call came from phone number: 202-684-6889, which registers out of Washington, D.C., according to the report. Residents are cautioned not to give credit card numbers or account numbers over the phone. To see more of the St. Cloud Times or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://www.sctimes.com . Copyright (c) 2010, St. Cloud Times, Minn. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For reprints, email [email protected], call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write to The Permissions Group Inc., 1247 Milwaukee Ave., Suite 303, Glenview, IL 60025, USA. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ] |