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Below is a tiny sample of the hundreds and hundreds of complaints we receive about the many versions of this scam. It does no good to list all of the names used by these bunko artists because a.) they change all the time and b.) every single free-money government-grant offer is a scam. Period. amie of yale, MI June 26, 2009 My husband went on the website grantfundingsearch (aka mysearch4grantsandfunding) typed in name and address with his phone number, when it came to the credit card info, he backed out of it. The following day we were contacted by this company by a #2202 Nola Garcia. I had numerous questions about the program and decided to go ahead and do it. I gave her my information ( including my credit card #), she then gave me my confirmation # and told me that we would have an email with our user name and password with in 24 hours. Well that time passed, so I called, and low and behold, they have no record of me or my husband. I spent a total of 18 hours trying to solve this problem between 2 days, with no results. I spoke with so many people and made sure I got all their employee #'s. was told many times that I could not speak to a supervisor. Placed on hold forever by everyone of them, and still got nowhere. They keep asking for my credit card # over and over again, and I refused to give it to them. They all told me, they can not help if I do not give them my card #. I told them I had a transaction #, and to contact their billing dept with that # and find it from there. Still nothing. So I can not cancel my subscription with them due to they do not have my information, and I am waiting to see if my credit card will be charged again. Loretta of Rancho Cucamonga, CA June 9, 2009 I signed up this morning 6/09/2009 for the Easy Google Profit Trial Kit and a few minutes later, I requested cancellation for this trial kit by calling g the telephone number listed and by email, Because the website did not disclosed the monthly fees , that would apply after I purchased the trail kit for 1.97 cents. After I purchased the trail kit, I received a email from (Grant Master Online and another site called Blazing keywords) subsidiary product provider with Easy Gouge Profit, that after the 7 day trial, I would be charge a monthly free in the amount of 38.34. which I can not agree to. After responding to the confirmation email sent to me by Grant master online and Blazing keywords websites. I email then back to cancel the order. I was denied the cancellation my one of their rep. I explained to this site reprehensive that their aid was misleading and that once I received the email from their product providers, that is would cost me not only the original fee quoted in the amount of 1.97 to have access their products, it will cost me an additional 38.34 monthly to be a member; fees I am not willing to pay for and that these fees where not disclosed in the original advertisement. I was not willing to pay for, and I did not know it was going to cost monthly fees, because it was not explain on the original/ website application/ad. I was originally told it would cost only the trail fee of 1.97 cents, however, if I did not want to continue with this site, I would need to cancel before the 7 day trial ended, I call the same day, and was told, I should try the trail for at least four days before I canceled. I was not in agreement. I asked to be cancel right away, via telephone and email on thee separate occasion. I called to cancel right the charged my credit card the 1.97 cents and once I received the email, that I would be paying monthly fees after 7 day. I believe they will not cancel the account as per my request, or before they can make a profit from me. The original ad disclosure, was flawed, it did not state the monthly free on the original ad. One you paid the 1/97 for the kit, and they got you credit card number, they would then send you email to tell you about the monthly fee. I tried to cancel, however, I was unsuccessful getting this done. James of Villas, NJ June 22, 2009 I requested a free grantnow CD for shipping and handling charges only. Then all of a sudden I was charged for other services which I did not agree to or order. And I have been charged monthly fees since march 2009. I contacted my credit card company and gave them all info that I did not request any additional services. But, I still have been getting billed each month. Please help me. I am a 72 year old, low income senior . How can I stop this? Nichole of oregon city, OR June 4, 2009 I was told by a friend she heard on the radio about free grant money i knew it was probably a scam but ofcourse as we all do i went on line anyhow..They asked for my name address the normal stuff then they wanted my credit card well i dont have any thats something i dont need and then today 6-03-09 some guy calls me saying i have been approved for over a hundred thousand dollars in grant money. Would be nice beacuse i could use it to pay of debt if it were real. Well i told him i dont have a credit card thats why i did not go through with it and he started being a jerk saying you dont have a credit card who does not have a card these days. Then goes on and says well does your family have one so i just hung up on him. People like that need to quit screwing people over its hard enough living day to day without them taking money that they did not wotk for. i dont see them getting up at the crack of dawn to go work for min wage. It needs to be stoped. Im sorry for all of you out there. Mary of Tracy City, TN June 1, 2009 I oredered the cd and was suppost to pay 2.95. now i have found out that they have takened out 99.95 out of my account in the last 2 mo. this has made my checks to bounce on my house dawn of sandwich, IL May 29, 2009 they are making withdraws from my account without permission two months in a row now for 58 each time. i want them to stop! kirk of salt lake city, UT May 20, 2009 in jan of '09 i was interested in getting some information on grants, i found a site that looked and seemed legit, it had 3rd party credibility from cbs , nbc , and some other familiar names so i used my credit card to pay for shipping and handling which was cheap 1 or 2 dollars not sure exactly. it was some sort of trail, to prevent any further charges it said to cancel within 30 days. i canceled the very next day, i didnt recieve a cd i was supposed to or anything else. since i never use my credit card i didnt bither to check my statement until today and realized i've been getting charged 29.95 the past 5 months, for a product i canceled and never seen. plus i have 3 different numbers and one of them 800- asks me if i've been charged for 6 other different products which after looking at my statement i've been getting charged for identity theft and never ordered it this same company that advertises for grants slips in other products too. 160 in more debt there is so many online sites to buy from i want be doing any online banking or transactions ever with any of them except amazon books. lost almost all trust Gale of Washington, NC May 13, 2009 I ordered a free CD for educational grants for 1.98 shipping charges. I never received the CD and got a 69.96 charge on my credit card for not canceling a service that I did not authorize or even know I was getting. I was told that this information came with the CD which I never received and that it was on their website. I tried to go to the website and it would not come up. I talked with a supervisor that I could not understand very well. She told me my service would be cancelled as of today (5-13-09) but they could not take off the 69.95 charge. I had already contacted my bank and told them this was something I had not ordered or authorized. The payment was pending. I also closed my credit card. This is definitely a scam. I had another charge of 30.00 on my credit card the same day that was not authorized by me and I feel sure done by this same group. The charge said ClubNV. I canceled my credit card because I could see that these charges were just beginning and would only get worse. I want this scam to stop. These people should be prosecuted. Shelly of Conway, SC May 13, 2009 On February 18, 2009 I ordered a grant writing cd off the internet for 3.95 shipping and handling. Before I even received the cd, I got an email stating that I had to cancel my membership within so many days or my account would be charged so I went a head and cancelled on 2/25/09 . Well I was checking my bank account online and I see where I was charged 74.95 on 3-2-09 and another 29.95 on 3-4-09. I called my bank then and told them that those two charges where unauthorized and that I wanted to block this company from taking anymore money, the lady at the bank gave me the 800 numbers to contact this party that was taking the money on 3-16-09 I called Ultimate Grant Secrets and they proceeded to tell me my money would be refunded in 48 hours, which it wasn't so I called again and the next person told me that it was 48 business hours, so I waited six days and still no money, so I called back and got another excuse how the computers where down and that they would be sending me a check it would take 10-12 days, I waited and still no money, I called them back on 3-27-09 and they told me that they were getting ready to refund the money on 4-2-09 they refunded the 29.95 but not the 74.95 I called back 4-6-09 and the person told me to give it a few more days because it was taking longer then they expected. I waited until 4-17-09 and called them back, so the gentlemen I talked to said he was going to resend the cancellation, low and behold it would be another 10-12 days well I still don't have the money and when I called last week the man said he would send an email to the company and now it's a week later and nothing. I called this afternoon and the lady informed me that they don't have to refund my money, but she would send another email. I told her I wanted to talk to someone in management and she said that I couldn't that they are a third party company that takes complaints. I told her that I was going to call everyday until I got my money. Every time you call this 866- you speak to yet another non speaking American, that you can hardly understand. This is a scam and they are ripping more people off everyday. Something has got to be done about this. I did not agree to any of these charges. earl of miraloma, CA May 7, 2009 they,took out 99.90 out of my checking account they wasnt giving permission to. they were only was giving access to get only 1.95, i called n question why. they denied it. i have prof fome my bank statement they are a rip off co. n should be checked out. im probly not the only one they did it to. they shouldnt even advertise on the internet. i came accross them when i was looking for work, i received the cd. but they had no permission to access over 1.95. i told them they better refund back 99.90. as of tomorrow im making sure they will be block, u should investagate them, thank you Advertisement
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