Comments on: Obama Checks and Government Grants – New Facebook Ad Scam

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 04 May 2010 20:26:56 +0000

I do see these ads quite often on Facebook and I should admit they’re very convincing. Glad to know now that one shouldn’t easily fall pray to ads. Thanks for the heads up.

By: Eduard Dawson

Eduard Dawson — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:55:00 +0000

Sad thing is, people are likely to just jump the quick cash bandwagon because money is scarce and so are the chances for it. So once they see something inviting, it’s likely they’d jump it because they’re using someone reputable to ‘advertise’ -Obama at that!- and then some other John Smiths and Jane Does that god only knows if they truly exist.

Grants and all info pertaining to them are for free. Even the grant itself is for free.

But it’s the no free lunch principle here. You can’t get anything from nothing. Sure you get free grants but there is an appropriate exchange for it: usually something from your end to give back to the community.

I hope more get to read about this so they don’t fall for these obvious phonies.

Eduard Dawson

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:40:30 +0000

Hi There Heather,
If you read this, my name is Susan Schafer and I am very interested in hearing your story. I can be contacted at scha0119@algonquincellege.com. You could privately send me your number and I could give you a call.
Or for anyone else reading this that has been scammed, the same deal.
Any help is much appreciated!
Susan

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:25:55 +0000

I got scammed? I’m smart, college educated, how could it happen? I’ll tell you why…because I’m a grants professional, and I KNOW that government grant listings are free and should be free because it’s public information, like OMB circulars and the like. However, I thought, well it’s fair to charge S and H. I never thought they would hit me with these recurrent ’subscription fees’ for services I did not order! I saw the first charge today, canceled my card (this was Jeff’s Grants Blog, who is the dweeb they have a photo of?). I have now read that they operate out of India and Pakistan, is that correct.

i don’t NEED to tell you that they don’t answer their 1800 number.

I feel stupid, but why is Google and Facebook allowing this? TO be honest, I don’t feel so stupid, because I thought it was just a free listing of publicly available grants, witha lot of hoopla jargon for the dumb folks.

Argh.

Me?????

By: whaa

whaa — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:31:23 +0000

wow

By: admin

admin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:59:33 +0000

Note that those registrations posted by Digital Diva aren’t the information for the owner of those sites, that’s just the registration information for the proxy and privacy services they are hiding their registrations behind.

By: Digital Diva

Digital Diva — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:50:45 +0000

Here’s info for bengetscash.com Listed with GODADDY

Registrant:
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: BENGETSCASH.COM
Created on: 24-Feb-09
Expires on: 24-Feb-10
Last Updated on: 24-Feb-09

Administrative Contact:
Private, Registration BENGETSCASH.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599 Fax — (480) 624-2598

Technical Contact:
Private, Registration BENGETSCASH.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599 Fax — (480) 624-2598

Domain servers in listed order:
NS19.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS20.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

By: Digital Diva

Digital Diva — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:47:07 +0000

Here is the domain name info

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Visit AboutUs.org for more information about JEFFRYSGRANTBLOG.COM
AboutUs:
JEFFRYSGRANTBLOG.COM

Registration Service Provided By: Site5 LLC
Contact: hostmaster@site5.com
Visit: http://www.site5.com

Domain name: JEFFRYSGRANTBLOG.COM

Registrant Contact:

Liam Riley ()

Fax:
301 Patrick Street
Hobart, Tasmania 7018
AU

Administrative Contact:

Private Registration (admin@jeffrysgrantblog.com)
+1.6859585555
Fax:
143 Downhill Road
Phoenix, AZ 93842
US

Technical Contact:

Private Registration (admin@jeffrysgrantblog.com)
+1.6859585555
Fax:
143 Downhill Road
Phoenix, AZ 93842
US

Status: Locked

Name Servers:
ns1.softlayer.com
ns2.softlayer.com

Creation date: 13 Feb 2009 21:08:41
Expiration date: 13 Feb 2010 21:08:41

By: Digital Diva

Digital Diva — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:39:23 +0000

WOW! YEAH! I clicked through a google ad sense avertisment -read the page then googled the URL to find this page. Went to Yahoo to check my mail and there was a hugh side ad with a different URL. I clicked through and here…see for yourself.
jeffrysgrantblog.com
bengetscash.com
Yep! it’s the same photo of Ben Karlson who lives in Nevada City, California and Jeff Donahue. When you scroll down the page it’s the same photos of he and the wife…..One would think a scam artist would be a bit more clever and insert new text and for sure NEW photos.

By: Rob

Rob — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:20:50 +0000

Listen its like fishing folks, No one But, no one is going to share where the honey hole is. Because face it. Why in the world would anyone want to help you out. If you found a gold mine would you holler I found gold. Hell No. face it, your on your own. Now you have been told the truth.