BBB warns of rise in scholarship scams targeting college students

BBB warns of rise in scholarship scams targeting college students

GREENVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) – The Better Business Bureau is reporting a rise in scams targeting students as they try to pay for college. The BBB said students in the Upstate reported losing upwards of a hundred dollars to scholarship scams in recent weeks.  The agency told 7NEWS scammers are impersonating federal student loan representatives.  "We've also had a lot of reports of people saying that they were called out of the blue, that they w…