Complaint Review: NEXUS FINANCIAL

Our company recieved a call on Dec 1, 2011 about the qualification of a small business government grant that we quailified for.  I took the information and then did some checking on the information we were ginen.  The man Steven Meyer from Washington DC 202-559-6992 gave us a grant proposal number and said he was refuring us to a grant writing office named Nexus Financial in Tampa,FL.  I said no problem and then proceeded to do some checks on this company through BBB and fraud checks.  At that time nothing pulled up and they received a A rating with BBB. 

 The next day Dec 2, 2011 I received a call from Rick Allen at Nexus Financial. He explained the whole process which matched perfectly up with the grant process that I had already researched.  He said I could get back with him the next day if we were going to proceed.  When we called back he said he was putting us through a grant writer named Candy Benson a grant writer for the price of 490.00 dollars which did not seem outrages.  We were told to send a certified check to Accounting/Client Services department at 2250 NW 114TH AVE UNIT 1P, MIAMI FL 33172 and then call with the tracking number of the check and postal service tracking number which we did. I called Rick back at 813-471-1998 with those numbers. He was very professional as I expected in this service. We had sighned a contract with Nexus Financial 5010 W CARMEN ST  TAMPA, FL 33609  with a money back guarantee and full disclosure agreement and signature page.  I fully expected that we were getting the break we so needed in such tough times.  We were told our package for the 9 page grant proposal would arrive between Dec 12-16 and that we had a time crunch do to the end of the year. 

 I spent the last three days trying to get in touch and leaving messages to find out the status of the grant proposal package we were waiting on. NO answeres and NO call backs.  Yesterday I saw we were not the only ones hit by this and My heart just fell.  That 490.00 was alot of money in these tough times.  I am looking for assistance in just getting these people caught and hopefully the money back.  Please don't fall for this scam.  It is hurting many people and they need to be held accountable for this scam.  The list of names to look for are RICK ALLEN AND CANDY BENSON AND THE MAN FROM WASHINGTON NAMED STEVEN MEYER AND NEXUS FINANCIAL GROUP