We received an automated message, stating that we may be eligible for a grant. We took the call gave our information. We then received a call from another person stating that he has personally looked over our application and that we were exactly the type of business they were looking to help. All we had to do was wire $3,000.00, which we had to do in 2 different payments, because we didn't have all the money. But we did it. We received the cheesy business plan that I am sure everyone else has also received. Then we were contacted and told, that one donor had was going to provide us the grant money, and that we would be receiving 932,000.00. All we had to do was pay 7,500.00 and fill out the paperwork for the donor's IRS statement. Because they were giving us a grant for that amount they receive a million tax credit. So as much as it pains me to say it we filled out the paperwork got the money and wired it to them. Then we received a call telling us we now had a million plus grant coming to us, but we had to do paperwork to become a non-profit and it had to be done a certain way, and wouldn't you know it? They have a company they work with, that could set it all up for us, all we had to do was... Wire them another 7,500.00. Well we didn't send them the extra 7,500.00 and low and behold we have not heard from them since. That is the quick summary, of course there were calls telling us what we could and couldn't do with the grant money and how to code everything when we started using the money. Seems to me this is not just unethical but illegal. I am going to be writing demanding my money back with a copy of the letter sent to the Districts Attorneys office in Las Vegas. This all began December 6 our final contact with them was April of this year.
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