Grant Assist, at www.GrantAssist.com, is a website that offers people a kit to help them understand how the government grant system works, and claims that they will give you “step by step directions” that will enable you to get a $50,000 grant from the United States government.
Money provided by the national government to help people successfully accomplish a variety of things – purchase or renovate property, earn a college degree, begin a start up business, etc – are considered government grants. Applications are required as well as a detailed outline carefully explaining the ways in which you will use the money to achieve your goals, in order to receive these funds.
In order to receive the kit you need from Grant Assist, you must give them all your information and pay a Shipping & Handling fee of $2.97.
The Truth Behind Grant Assist
Grant Assist asks you to fill in your address for shipping purposes. At the bottom of the address form, there is a tiny little footnote that says giving them your address means that you have read and agreed to their Terms & Conditions. In order to actually read the Terms, however, you must click the link at the very bottom of the page.
In their Terms you’ll see that your initial fee of $2.97 gives you a 7 day membership. After 7 days, you will be charged $57.93 for your membership. This $57.93 is a charge that will reoccur every 30 days until you cancel your membership. And while you may cancel at any time, nothing but your initial charge of $2.97 is eligible for a refund.
At no point, anywhere on their page, does Grant Assist mention a membership fee, or a trial membership. To the average buyer who doesn’t read their entire Terms page, the charge of $57.93 will be a complete surprise. That is completely unethical business.
In addition, Grant Assist is located in Ta’L-lbrag, Malta, which means that trying to get a refund could be extremely difficult. Also, it’s not exactly confidence inspiring that a foreign based company is offering to teach you how to get US grant funds.
Finally, the United States government already has a website that explains the entire grant process to you, for completely free. If you are interested in getting information on applying for grants, that is the best place to start.
Would you like to add your review for
I am going to report this the BBB and I also notice they use different names when they withdraw this amount.
GRANT EDU zbelly.com GrAssist.org
I did not even know what this charge was. They scammed me really good. I have notified my bank and report this to the BBB asap!
The bank said since I had received services from them there was nothing that they could do. At that time I all that I did was receive there disc. I sent a fax to the bank showing them the website and explaining what happened, but I never received a reply. I'm going to show this review site to my bank, and see if they will reinvestigate the matter.
848 N. Rainbow Blvd., Ste. 589
Las Vegas, NV 89107
888-632-5590
I also provided the link to this website of all the reviews in my complaint to the BBB. If they see enough complaints they may possibly bring a class action lawsuit against them. Several years ago, there was a company scamming a whole bunch of people, and after 40+ complaints, I was contacted by the BBB's attorney and I got all my money back plus penalties and interest I had paid. It is worth the effort to file complaints with the BBB. They will do everything they can to help.
This person/company is a criminal and should be processed the same as someone robbing a bank. Please does anyone know how to proceed to try and retrieve my money, since it is on a mastercard will they help. I been receiving calls from a person that they are representing master card and want more information, I not a fool twice, so be on the look out for these calls, calls coming from a 613 area code, lady cant speak very good or any english.
Look out for this scam from GrantAssist.
Are we ready to do something about this?
These scam artists must be reprimanded. Lawsuits usually do a fine job!
Anyone interesetd?