Just got this in the mail is this a scam?

Coloradogrl · Jan 9, 2006

I dont know....I have heard there is alot of scams out there but I would really like to know!

jmgrn65, RN · Jan 9, 2006

if it smells like one it probably is, besides I don't know of scholarships that require money. Be wary of anyone who wants money up front. You can always ask your school they would know.

Marie_LPN, RN, LPN, RN · Jan 9, 2006

25 dollar processing fee? Sniff, sniff, i smell something.

Nurse Ratched, RN · Jan 10, 2006

you have been selected by the usa scholarship services to receive this offer to apply for 2006/2007 nursing scholarship program.

i think this is key. legitimate scholarships, in my experience, don't require fees to apply. i suspect this is a place charging you to find scholarship opportunities that are readily available to search for free.

https://allnurses.com/forums/f50/usa-scholarship-services-68291.html

stpauligirl · Jan 10, 2006

I think this is key. Legitimate scholarships, in my experience, don't require fees to apply. I suspect this is a place charging you to find scholarship opportunities that are readily available to search for free.
https://allnurses.com/forums/f50/usa-scholarship-services-68291.html

Thanks for everyone's response. The letter went into the papershredder!

Some school called us not long ago and they were kind of thick not getting it that I wasn't interested in their 'Health Care Management" online degree.

Slick salespeople, nothing is worse!

Fun2, BSN, RN · Jan 10, 2006

Well, I was going to tell you it was a scam, so just send me the $$. :rotfl:

(It may not have been, but I agree with the above posters. "IF" you received anything from them at all, it would probably be a list of people you could write to FIND OUT about scholarships.)

**RosesrReder, BSN, MSN, RN** · Jan 10, 2006

Don't do it! I have gotten a call similar to this with the same processing fee and it was a scam. They started by saying it was free, and how lucky I was to be one of the few selected etc....

Later to ask me for my bank account info and credit card. I refused

The calls continued for months.

Beware

stpauligirl · Jan 11, 2006

Well, I was going to tell you it was a scam, so just send me the $$. :rotfl:
(It may not have been, but I agree with the above posters. "IF" you received anything from them at all, it would probably be a list of people you could write to FIND OUT about scholarships.)

:lol2:

Where have you beeeeen, I was looking for you!

Fun2, BSN, RN · Jan 11, 2006

Where have you beeeeen, I was looking for you!

lol..... I've been posting mostly on the GM thread in the breakroom. Other than that, studying Algebra! I only come on during "study breaks". I'm studying for my final now.....class is over Friday, the 13th! :cool:

How've you been?

MMARN, BSN, RN · Jan 11, 2006

Fun2Care,

What's wrong with your guestbook on your web site? I tried to write a comment and it won't let me. It tells me that there has been an "Internal Error".

Mave.

MMARN, BSN, RN · Jan 11, 2006

Letter goes like this:
You have been selected by the USA Scholarship Services to receive this offer to apply for 2006/2007 Nursing scholarship program.
After som blah blah blah it says that Every year USA provides assistance to about 250 Nursing students. In 2006 aobut 300 students are expected to benefit from the shcolarship programs.
More blah blah
There is a 25.00 processing fee on all 2006/2007 applicants.
This is from USA Scholarship Services
Scholarship Program
for Nursing Students
address of somewhere in Washington, DC
It smells like a scam....what do you all think?

BTW, good thing you didn't send any money. It sounded shady and obviously it was shady. Thank God you didn't send the mula.