Note to high school and TRIO counselors, financial aid administrators, and admissions officers:

Scholarship fraud has become common enough that, in 2000, the College Scholarship Fraud Prevention Act was passed. The Act states that more people should be aware of scholarship scams and asks the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to step up our awareness efforts. The FTC continues to prosecute fraudsters and has reprinted its Project $cholar$cam poster and bookmark. ED has updated its "Looking for Student Aid" brochure and this web page. We encourage you to display the poster and distribute the bookmark and brochure to your students.

The text for the College Scholarship Fraud Prevention Act of 2000 can be accessed online or downloaded in PDF format * (Portable Document Format).

To order copies of the Project $cholar$cam poster and/or bookmark, click here.

To read the May 2002 press release issued when ED and the FTC delivered the first report to Congress on scholarship scams, and to download the report itself, click here.

To read the 2003 press release and download the second report to Congress, click here.

To order copies of  "Looking for Student Aid," call 1-800-4-FED-AID (for 10 or fewer copies) or 1-877-4-ED-PUBS (for more than 10 copies).

*To view the Portable Document Format files (PDFs) from this site, download a free Acrobat Reader. You will need to install the Acrobat Reader on your computer before viewing PDF files.