GrantsForYouNow.com is a clear scam regardless if the information is valuable or not. It is nothing more than a bait and switch.
They entice you with an offer of receiving information on federal grants for $1.99. After you sign up for the info, you find out that doing so signs you up for another "program" listed in small print that incurs several credit card charges: $. 04 for foreign transactions, $. 55 for foreign transaction, $18.77 for an additional program. Those charges are nothing compared to what's down the road.
Hidden in the fine print of the pop-up box for the terms and conditions, you find that the $1.99 is an "introductory" price good for seven days. After the seven days, you are charged $94.87 per month for one year for the "grants program". You have to keep the "grants program" for 88 days (two days short of three months—wonder why?) before they will refund your money.
Nowhere on the website is there a banner, statement, or indication that the $1.99 you pay is an introductory price. You only find that out if you click near the pre-checked terms and condition box and then you get the pop-up.
A legitimate business would NEVER conduct itself in such a patently deceptive manner. It is a rip-off. They know it is rip-off and are just trying to hide it.
If you try to stop the payment, you are out of luck. My bank would only stop it if I got on a three-way call with GrantsForYouNow.com. Guess what? GrantsForYouNow.com would not put me through to their billing department and did not have a phone number for their billing department. All they would do was send an email to the billing department. I wound up having to cancel my credit card to prevent further charges. My bank said they would file a complaint and try to get my money back, but I am not optimistic.
Don't get taken-in by this scam.
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