Many scholarship-finding services will tell you that "millions of dollars in private scholarship money goes unused every year" and they can guarantee that you will get this money by using their service and most of time there is up front fee incur. BEWARE! It might be scholarship scams trap. In general, if you have to pay money to get money, it's probably a scam.

Every year thousand of students and parents are defrauded by scholarship scams. And many of them even unaware that they had dropped into the trap of scholarship scams, the victims usually write off the money paid up front to the scams as thinking they just simply didnt win the scholarship.

Let review some of common scholarship scams so that your will be alerted and precaution about the suspicious scholarship offers.