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Useful Information: Financial Aid for Undergraduates

Scholarship Scams

If you have to pay money to get money, it’s probably a scam

Good tips and advice Scholarship-Options.com on how to avoid scholarship scams.

Every year, several hundred thousand students and parents are defrauded by scholarship scams. The victims of these scams lose more than $100 million annually. Scam operations often imitate legitimate government agencies, grant-giving foundations, education lenders and scholarship matching services, using official-sounding names containing words like National, Federal, Foundation, or Administration. This section provides advice on how to identify such scholarship scams, how to distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent organizations, how to protect yourself from scholarship scams; and what to do if you are scammed.

In general, be wary of scholarships with an application fee, scholarship matching services who guarantee success, advance-fee loan scams and sales pitches disguised as financial aid “seminars”.

For more information: http://www.scholarship-options.com/2010/03/if-you-have-to-pay-money-to-get-money-its-probably-a-scam/

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