GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – The Better Business Bureau is reporting a rise in scams targeting students as they try to pay for college. The BBB said students in the Upstate reported losing upwards of a hundred dollars to scholarship scams in recent weeks.
The agency told 7NEWS scammers are impersonating federal student loan representatives.
“We’ve also had a lot of reports of people saying that they were called out of the blue, that they won a scholarship that they never even applied for. And, the same thing with grants, that’s going to be your number one red flag. Whether you’re playing the lottery or you’re applying for a scholarship or a grant, if you didn’t apply for it, you’re not going to get a call out of the blue telling you that you won,” Upstate BBB president Hunter Jones explained…