Aug 3, 2011
I too received the "You're the lucky grant winner from the Fed!" call, and even with laughably bad and obvious scams, I tend to placate the caller in hopes of finding out some useful information to report to the authorities.
They're apparently nailing some incredibly naive people with this tactic, getting them to head to Western Union and make a "security deposit" of a couple hundred bucks to a US Government affiliate in... India. Yes, of course. We've outsourced our legitimate jobs there, why not the con artists as well. I'm not sure I'd call them artists - this hoax was more like finger painting.