Complaint Review: First American Consulting Group

My son and I saw this web sight for goverment grants assisting people in paying for College, paying off College loans, starting a business and paying off existing bills.

We clicked on the sight filled out our information email, address, phone numbers home and cell and waited for a call back.

A repersentive called us from First Amerian Consulting Group stating that since we were both from the same house we only needed to fill out paperwork for everyone.

We explained to him we were looking for money to pay for my sons College, my daughters tution and to pay our debts and start a home based business.

We explained to the lady that my husband had been laid off his job and he was the only income so we needed help immediately because not only needed money for us but for other sickly family members.

We told him about my bed ridden mother and handicap father who is blind, my sister with cancer who has six children, my niece with cancer and a step father with heart problems who we helped to support when my husband was working.

They assured us that they would be able to help that they would be drafting money out of my son and my account at the end of the month to join their membership so we could be assigned a financial consultant.

They explained that as soon as they received the money they would send us a questionnaire to fill out all our need of what we needed money for.

They drafted the money in August 30, 2006 and we waited about 30 days and heard from noone. Finally I started calling, they said that they had to wait till the got confirmation they received the money.

This was on September 30, 2006, I waited another two weeks and called back they said it still was not confirmed, I told them what are you talking about the money was taken out on August 30th.

They said call back at the end of the month and it should be there, I have never in my life see a wire transfer take so long.
I called back finally in October and they said they received it.

They sent us out a package to fill out and we filled it out and sent it back right away, we sent it certified return receipt. We got the card back on the 20th of October.

I called once again on October 30th, and they told my son that we should have a check by December 20th. So we waited all the while getting more and more financial trouble, my mother needed medication.

I needed medication, and so did my neice who was HIV positive who needed our help and we always help her as well as my sister with cancer and my brother who is a dibetic with 4 children.

December 20th came no check, I called back again and they told us that it takes 3 to 6 months after they get the paper work back. But since they had told my son that they would work extra hard.They told me that they wanted to get as much money for us as they could that is what was taking so long.

January came and I talked to a lady that said that she would check on it and call me back. She did and told me that I sould receive a check by the end of January if not call her back.

This lady gave me her name and told me to leave a message for her. No suprise we did not receive a check, I called her several times and left a message for her and she did not call back.

By the middle of February I called and they said that the number she gave me for her directly 1-877-340-0550 was not in service.So I called the number on the letter they sent me and I quote "Congratulations and thank you for choosing "First American Consulting Group.

You have taken the first step toward benefiting from those billions of dollars our goverment makes available each year to ultimately benefit people just like you and me."

That number was "866-370-3619 a very rude man answered the phone and said that they were no longer in bussiness and there was nothing he could do for us and do not call them again and hung up in my face.

I called back and tried to explain this was the number on their letter head that they had sent telling us this was the number to coustomer service he called me stupid and told me not to call back again he hung up.

I was very upset, my son called the man was rude to him and told him that they company did not exist anymore but he did know who we were but he could not help us.

By then I was in tears no only were we in trouble but the people who depended on us was going without. This was the biggest goverment scam.

Those sights are still out there on the net please don't fall for them all they do is take your money and feed you to the wolves I hope you include us in your lawsuit if you decide on one.

Chirstopher and thelma
Houston, Texas
U.S.A.