Greetings:
With the next college semester coming just around the corner, I’d like to stop in and offer warning about a scam that I came across when I first tried filling out my FAFSA.
The “Free Application for Federal Student Aid,” or FAFSA, offers free money from the government to help pay for college. It’s a scholarship system that grants you a certain amount of money depending on you and your parent’s income.
The poorer you are, the more money you get.
Be warned, however, that there is a misleading website called FAFSA.com. It’s in any not affiliated with the actual FAFSA website, FAFSA.ed.gov.
FAFSA.com has you fill out an imitation FAFSA application. At the end, they attempt to charge you $80 for them to “help” find any errors within the application.
The real FAFSA is actually a lot easier to fill out than the counterfeit. The government website itself will also inform you if any problems come up.
One of the more frustrating things about FAFSA .com is the fact that they ask for your Social Security Number. Thankfully, they don’t seem to be in the business of identity theft, so if you accidently fill out the wrong application, your SSN hasn’t been compromised.
Sincerely,
Me
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