1. Pay this amount: The means to identify scholarship
scams is to remember that the money flows to the
student, and not from students. Genuine and reputable
scholarships are free to apply for and it should not
require any flow of money out from you . If you come
across a scholarship that charges you to apply, it’s
likely a scam. Beware of any “scholarship” that
requests an application fee, even as low as N5,000 or
even Rechargeable Cards or innocuously low one like
$10 or $20 or most especially application submissions
that can be undertaken free of charge, as most
legitimate scholarship sponsors do not require
application fee for any reason.
2 . Its Guaranteed or we refund: This is the funniest
and the easiest means of knowing its a scam, because
nobody can guarantee a scholarship and this can be
so tempting. If you are worthy and you will certainly
get it. Shady companies may promise you a
scholarship, but that guarantee may never come and
that’s the red flag that warns you to flee. Such
guarantees are counting the federal student aid
programs and probably private student loan
programs, for which people are eligible to get it.
3. Exclusive Rights: There is a general belief that
exclusive things are of higher quality, as such this is
another way thieves and fraudulent individuals
operate, they trick you by offering “exclusive”
scholarships you can’t find anywhere else. No one
has exculsive access to scholarship information.
All information about scholarships can be freely
found online. Anyone who claims to have access to a
secret database is lying and is likely going to charge
you for the “exclusive” information. or individuals
never actually provide any information at all, they just
take money and then are gone.
4 . You win a Scholarship that you did not apply for:
These are actually what most of us are actually facing
as we speak, we have been sent text messages that
we’ve won scholarships,grants and even loan we have
no clue about and hence these are fraudulent people
at work. You cannot win a scholarship or anything you
did not apply for.
5. Request for personal information: If a scholarship
application is asking for more details such as bank
account numbers, pin numbers and the answers to
security questions, it could be a scam. This
information will never be requested by legitimate
scholarship opportunities.
6. Seminars to getting your scholarship money: Be
wary of certain free seminars claiming to know how
and the best way to get you scholarship money. These
sessions could be include pressure schemed tactics
which could leave you very uncomfortable for you and
could cause you to end up patronizing them, so the
way out is not to go at all even if you are invited.
The main way to avoid all these scams is to use
common sense and be inquisitive. When you ask
questions, you can usually find the holes in a scam
and avoid being fooled. Remember, money should be
coming to you instead of you should giving it out to
fraudsters.
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