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Grantfundingsearch.com

Monday, March 23, 2009

Site Info:

Domain name: grantfundingsearch.com (main)

Related sites: governmentgrantsolutions.org, mysearch4grantsandfunding.com

Affiliates are linking to one of the following URLS:

https://grantsearch.securemediabox.com/
https://grantsearch.securemediabox.com/?file=index_v2.html
https://grantsearch.securemediabox.com/?file=index_v3.html
https://grantsearch.securemediabox.com/?file=index_v4.html
https://grantsearch.securemediabox.com/?file=index_v5.html
https://grantsearch.securemediabox.com/?file=index_v6.html
https://grantsearch.securemediabox.com/?file=index_v7.html

https://mysearchforgrants.secureauthority1.com

Type: Grant Scam Merchant that bills your credit card

Whois information: Private registration, but here

Owner / Location info from terms:
Grant Funding Search Customer Care,
2850 Horizon Ridge Parkway,
Suite 200, Henderson,
NV 89052
Contact Info:

(888) 210-2544
support@grantfundingsearch.com

Fine Print
:


7 day trial 'shipping and handling' fee: $1.98

Recurring monthly fee after trial period ends: $69.95
'Bonus' Charges: Monthly recurring $29.95 for 'Ideal Wealth Builder Club'
Grant Funding Search reserves the right to update or modify these Terms and Conditions at any time without prior notice. Termination of this agreement is the sole and exclusive remedy if you deem the modification to be unacceptable. Your use of this website following any such change constitutes your acceptance and your approval to follow and be bound to the changed Terms and Conditions
...
By execution of this Agreement you hereby consent and agree that any and all disputes that arise concerning this Agreement or any of the terms of this Agreement, or that concern any aspect of the relationship between Client and Company, shall be decided exclusively in binding arbitration conducted by the American Arbitration Association ('AAA'). Client and Company further consent and agree that Client may file their complaint with the AAA in their state, but that all AAA arbitration hearings shall be conducted in Las Vegas, Nevada, where Company is headquartered and located

Other Info:

This grant scamhole gives affiliates the option to funnel their inbound links to one of several pages (see urls above), each with a 'unique' design:

'Government Funding - Grant Stimulus Opportunities' version

'Free Grant Resource' version

'Government Grant Solutions' version

'Government Grant Solutions' version 2

'Free Grant Solutions' version

'Grant Funding Search' version

Obviously all of these were designed for the same thing, so the fine print details are all the same...

The traffic to grantsearch.securemediabox.com has EXPLODED in the last couple of months:


Yeah, 600.000 visitors potential victims. Mostly affiliate driven, no doubt. If just 5% of the referred traffic fell for the scam, signed up, and was billed at the rates mentioned above, this company scamhole charged a combined total of (30.000 victims * US$100 =) US$ 3 MILLION

Interesting number (if you are the FTC).

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

This has me angry!

Ron said...

They called me 30 times over 3 days, make sure you don't give them ANY personal information!!

Anonymous said...

im real mad.they just took my money and ythen i cancelled and they took more.i want to kill these bastards

Anonymous said...

yep,
I was scammed too. Twice charged 69.95 months after I asked for a $3 CD to learn more about grants. In addition, they sold my email and now I am getting tons of junk mail. Parasites!

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