Multiple VERIFY readers asked about offers they received for government grants with “no strings attached.” Those offers are scams.
Multiple VERIFY readers reached out to ask about suspicious grant offers they got from people claiming to represent the federal government on Facebook.
One person asked about a “Trust Community Foundation” that offered as much as $100,000 in grant money available with “essentially no strings attached.”
Another reader was messaged by someone on Facebook about an apparent government organization called “American Development Grant Program” that they said had received $70,000 from. When the reader followed up with the alleged grant organization, they were told they had to pay as much as $1,000 for processing fees before they would be paid.
THE QUESTION
Does the federal government make unsolicited grant offers to people?
THE SOURCES
THE ANSWER
No, the federal government does not make unsolicited grant offers to people. Unsolicited grant offers appearing to come from the federal government are scams.
WHAT WE FOUND
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