My husband was researching the internet to find how to apply for a government grant to start a small business. Shortly afterward he received a phone call from a Mr. Jeff O'Brien, offering to assist him in obtaining the grant. He told my husband the grant would be in the amount of $80,000.00 and had to be used within 6 months of receiving it. Mr. O'Brien said there was a fee we would have to pay in the amount of $487.00 to their "grant writer, " Rosa De Brett in Miami, and that we had to send a cashiers check by a certain date. He also gave my husband, Dan a long detailed list of things he had to do for the grant; an itemized list of what the grant money would be used for. Dan worked for weeks on this endeavor; finding the appropriate building to rent, and obtaining dozens of estimates needed to update the building, etc. He did everything to the letter, and remained in contact with Jeff O'Brien by phone throughout all of it. UNTIL & Cooper, or Rosa, or whoever it was, received our cashier's check. The "packet" we were supposed to receive on the 13th of February never arrived, and needless to say none of our phone calls were ever returned. Now we're out $487.00 which was all we had in our savings, cheated by a good for nothing scam artist.
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