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The Grant Instructor Complaints - Telemarketing Fraud

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The Grant Instructor

Posted: 2008-05-13 by Kim Christianson [send email]
Telemarketing Fraud
Complaint Rating:  100 % with 5 votes
Company information:
Grant Instructor
Nevada
United States
Phone: 800-235-1364

I was at The Grant Instructor sight and agreed to pay $1.95 to access information that they advertised and there was absolutely no company policy that lead me to believe that there was any obligation other than the $1.95 that I authorized on my VISA card. I now understand that I was scammed by a company that was only looking for people's credit card numbers to bill monthly at $49.50. When I received my first credit card statement, this company, The Grant Instructor, charged me not once but twice in the same billing cycle. I have been running a business for 21 years and I have never seen such slimy business practices.
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40 days ago by Deceived [send email]
This is a SCAM!~

and NOW I understand how they do it!

I got ripped off too, called to complain and cancel, and got the person at the head of the company after talking to a call person for a while and getting useless standard replies. Of course, they won't give anyone their money back as you read above...

What they do is to have TWO application form windows. The first one looks innocuous:

https://secure.filesanywhere.com/MediaLink.asp?v=%8Ake%86%8E%9C%A3%A9%A7

The second one is where they catch you, it loads when you hit "Submit Order" on the first page. Suddenly the same-looking page with name and address info comes up BLANK again, so the applicant, irritated, retypes the information without really noticing the bottom of the page (circled here in RED):

https://secure.filesanywhere.com/MediaLink.asp?v=%8Akd%8F%9Db%ABu%A7h

Now they have their excuse to charge you indefinitely until you cancel, which of course most of us will only see once it shows up on the credit card statement, usually well past the 7 days!

No matter what, I am definitely fighting this one! This is clever consumer deception that they should not get away with.

BY THE WAY: I got their address from a fake "scammer alert" website. They have setup the same information on several legitimate looking websites, for example:

http://www.grants-revealed.org/
http://gov-grants.us/
http://www.scammer-alert.com/govt-grants.html
32 days ago by Tink [send email]
File a complaint with Nevada BBB at
www.vegasbbb.org. It was easy and quick.

Also file a complaint the with Nevada State Attorneys Office at http://ag.state.nv.us/complaints/complaints.htm

The more consumers that take action the better the results.

I filed with both agencies today regarding deceptive trade practice and unethical business transactions.

I am going to fight this one.
24 days ago by Kim [send email]
I fell for this too!!! Never even got a link to look at anything and was lead to believe there was no other obligations either until I got my credit card. I guess sooner or later thanks to people like this, replicable companys will be hurt too! This is really slimy and not to mention a major rip off. Then to top it off I find the number to call them on this fraud site and fight with the lady on the phone. You live and learn.
22 days ago by Danette Garlis [send email]
I just received my credit card statement with the $49.50 fee. I am going to cancel and fight as well what a joke. What comes around goes around.
15 days ago by Miko [send email]
Yep..me, too. Except I didn't wait for my credit card statement. I had used my debit card because if there's a problem, my bank will immediately halt the transaction. After the purchase, I was sent to a login page, but no opportunity to register for a login id/password combination. I smelled a rat. I went to the site I had saved on my harddrive once I purchased but didn't hit "ok" yet...no phone number...hmmm...the rat was rapidly decaying and stinking to high heavens. I got ahold of my bank and said "stop the madness!" They cut the debit card off, immediately issued a new one, and fedex'd it to me to arrive within 3-5 days. Whew! Now, all I have to do is dispute the 1.95. Now, THAT I can deal with. Good luck all and stay on top of this one.

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