Tips How to Identify Scholarship Scams

Tips How to Identify Scholarship Scams

Scholarship scams are much to common on the internet. Many students applying for scholarships get ripped off every year by fake scholarships. Using some tips below, however, attentive scholars should be able to avoid losing money. Hopeyou find these tips helpful.

1.   Application Fee

Scholarship scams are used by organizations that charge fees for availing procedures or application submissions that can be undertaken free of cost. Never pay for scholarship application fees.

2.   Guaranteed Scholarship Award

Scams that guarantee an award- Now this trap can be tempting to an aspiring student. Nobody can guarantee a scholarship. If you are worthy and your concerns are true you will certainly get it. Don't get into the trap called 'Scholarship guarantee'. No such thing exists.

3.   You "Win" a Scholarship that You've Never Applied

Scholarships scams will contact college students informing them that they have won full college scholarship. You cannot win a scholarship if you have never for applied for it. Often, the scammer will then tell the student that he must pay a fee or give his credit card number before the prize money can be sent. 

4.   Free Scholarship Scams

Nothing in life comes easily. There is no such thing like Free Scholarship. Scholarship is generally given to students with high quality academic record. Simply money does not grow on three.

5.   Request for Personal Information

Some scams ask for your personal details, such as bank statement, date of birth, passwords, account numbers, social security number etc. Never share your personal information with anyone online. Your identity might get cloned.

6.   No Telephone Number 
    One common characteristic of scholarship scams is the lack of phone numbers. While they may have an email, scams rarely include a phone number - it is to much too easily traced.

Always verify the source that containon websites. As a scholarship aspirant you need to research meticulously on the funding procedures. Otherwise you can fall a prey to any scholarship scam.