I like the rest or at least most of you ordered a grant CD from The Grant University and also Grant Dollars Now. While the cost of the CD's was not very much, the final cost of doing business with these scammers was to high for me. After ordering these two CD's I was charged $69.95 from grant univ. and $58.61 from Grant dollars now, I was also somehow signed up for accounts with SBA Connections for $13.42 per mo., IWB Club at $29.95 mo., Grantforyoutoday at $58.61 per mo., My grant for you at $13.42 per mo., Thats a total of 243.96 which I did not order, signup for or even know about until I received my credit card statement which like most you had OVERLIMIT FEES that added up. I was able to get the credit card company to dispute one of the carges and I was able to get the IWB Club to issue a refund of $29.95 there is still alot of outstanding fraudulant charges on my account. Since this all started in December or2008 and it is now May 5th 2009 the credit card company tells me it is too late to do anything about it, even though I filed disputes with them about these fees well within the time limit. I filed disputes for all of these charges on-line at the credit card companies website, to which they replied that they never got the disputes. So now who do I turn to? Well I am turning to all of you - I want to file a Lawsuit against the Fraudulant Grant Companies and any Bank or Credit Card company that is or was not willing to help stop these charges and thier overlimit fees from adding up. The banks that hold these credit card accounts have been ripping off the public for to long now, They have lined the pockets of Our Government Officials to pass laws and look the other way so that they can raise interest rates which until not long ago (I will have to find out exactly when) could not be more than acertain cap, which I think was like 19.99%, in any case now they ar raising rates on consumers faster than the price of gas, sme rats as high as 39.99%, Thats nearly 40% yrly. or 3.333% per month. The Government back when they took care ofits citizens would not let these banks charge so high an interest rate, you can get bette rates from a loan shark. I have a credit score of 783, thats pretty good, but I still get credit card rates as high as 28.99% and as low as 12.15%. What I am trying to say here is that your credit card company has an incentive to let these fraudulnt companies charge our accounts because they are raking in the dough and to be quite frank most consumers do not even look at thier statement much less file a dispute if they have charges that don't belong to them. So the banks make out even with what few accounts they have to put a credit on.

If you are interested in joining me in filing a class action Lawsuit to stop this abuse and to shut down a buch of fraudulant scamming websites then please e-mail me at [email protected]
I hope that there are some of you who want to put a stop to this type of fraud and will join me, And please anywhere you can, warn people about these scammer companies, if we don't look out for each other no one else will either. It is not right for peopleto get rich off of the people who need help the most. We have to take back our country and rid it of this new breed of thieves.

Sincely, Jeffrey Rogers

Im getting charges to my account that I never authorized. If it doesnt stop I will be getting a lawyer and will cancel my c.c. card.

This company is a FRAUD...They started charging my credit card after I ordered a CD. I was out of town when it arrived...and all of a sudden 70.00 a month was appearing on my card. I called, they apologized, promised me a "free month, " and never cancelled my account. I pay all my bills online and had not reviewed my credit card statement. I recently did and noticed they have been charging me for 5 months. I called, their voicemail 'was full, " finally got through, had two customer service reps hang up on me, a manager has NEVER been available...and they even gave me a bad email address. They have basically stolen 400.00 from me. I have NEVER EVEN accessed their site.

On 9-11-08, this business offered a free Grant CD as a special offer for the 9-11 tragedy. I checked the website and it claimed to be legitimate and was heavily advertised on 10 major news networks. I requested the free CD with the understanding that there would be a $1.98 charge for shipping and handling fees, and a 7 day free trial membership to the resource library online, which I agreed to.

I printed this out for my records, and it was 3 pages, with no terms and conditions. The only disclaimer I read ( out of all the website pages ( I printed out all 11 pages for my records) stated that the CD and trial membership was mine to keep, but after the free trial there could be monthly fees. I logged on to the website twice within the first 7 days, and found very little resources.

The website did not support any of the web seminars and I was unable to successfully sign up for any of the podcasts. Furthermore when I entered the virtual classrooms, they were all empty. So, this 'resource' did not amount to anything. The CD was supposed to arrive in 5-10 business days, but never arrived, so after waiting patiently for 6 weeks I e-mailed and requested that they check on it.

They informed me by e-mail that my membership expired on October 31st, said nothing about sending out the CD. I e-mailed them back stating that I was aware that my 7 day free trial membership had expired (should have as of 9/18) but that I had never received the CD. They also sent me a paragraph on terms and conditions that they claim I agreed to. I was shocked to read that they had been charging me $69.95 a month all the while, and had never sent me any notification that they were charging me, that I had a membership, that my membership had been canceled, not anything.

So, I called them and spoke to a woman with an Asian/Indian accent who was very polite, but did not verify that the CD had been sent, or offer to send one. She said, so sorry but I agreed to the terms and conditions. So, I filed a disputed charge complaint with my bank which covers the ATM card I used for the $1.98. They replied to the bank and claimed again that I had agreed to terms and conditions that I had never seen before.

The bank stated that ' Per Customer Service Representative, I did not cancel until October 21st, 2008', which is not only a lie but coincidentally happens to be the exact day that they billed my credit card for a second $69.95. So per their terms and agreement, my membership should have been good until November 21st.

I did not have any contact with them from the time I initially paid the $1.98 on 9/11/08 until my first e-mail to them 10/31/08 about the CD that I never received. And it was on 10/31/08 that they e-mailed me and stated that my membership had expired on 10/31/08, not canceled, per the Service Rep's statement to my bank regarding the dispute.

So, my complaint is that I did not receive the CD I paid the shipping and handling for ( I asked them by e-mail twice and by phone once and they still will not send it, or provide me any verification that they had ever sent it). And, I did not authorize or agree to being charged 69.95 on 9/22 or 10/21. If I did, they would not have written me that my membership canceled 10/31, or told the bank that I canceled the membership 10/21.

I authorized my bank to place a stop payment order in for $25.00. Now, I have a new charge for $29.95 from the IWB Club - which apparently is associated with The Grant University, I had to look the number up through the internet to figure this out, the number is 866 607 1071. Other people have also reported having unauthorized charges made by this company from their bank accounts.

I don't know what to do at this point except put in another stop payment for this one as well. This is unreal. I hope this report helps someone else steer clear of this rip-off scam.

I was scammed tooI did the same thing - but am taking steps to get my money back. I was so pissed off, I am writing everyone who was ripped off by Grant University.
You can also check out www.grantripoff.com which is looking into this case.

Here is how you do it.

Contact your credit card company and issue a dispute on the charge by The Grant University. Tell them that you did not authorize the charge of $69.95 - remember this is a monthly charge. They will raise a dispute with the Grant University and issue with a refund. They will then investigate the dispute with the Grant university on your behalf. They will levy a charge against the Grant University - and the Grant University will obviously have to prove that they took the money from you legitimately. Because they never posted the charge - you never knew you would be charged the $69.95.

You were issued with a confirmation email with terms, a login and password. Print this out or keep this file as proof that no charge amount was ever mentioned in their confirmation - this is proof that you never authorized or knew of any charge of $69.95

I called them and they gave me their present address:
The Grant University
450 Hillside Drive, Suite 200
Mesquite Nevada, 89027

The phone number is 877 207 1615 - but this is a call center in the Philippines. They refused to give out a U.S. direct phone number and also refused to state the name of the President of the company.

Also look for another charge of $29.95 from the Ideal Wealth Builder Club - there is a link to them as well. Dispute this charge as well. You should get your money back and create a file with the credit card company on The Grant University and it will go somewhere towards closing this company down.

I hope this helps - Good luck

GK