Americans Anxiously Wait To Apply For Student Loan Forgiveness, But Scammers Are Taking Advantage



President Biden unveiled his $400 billion Student Loan Forgiveness Plan back in August, but the plan has seen a sluggish rollout, creating a perfect storm for scammers. NBC News’ Steve Patterson speaks with Kevin Roundy, who has been studying these scams, including false ads online. He advises borrowers to never give out their personal information like FSA logins, credit card numbers and birthdates. Experts say the only safe place is the official studentaid.gov, where applications are now live.

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  2. Ah yes finally relief from my student loans I haven’t made a payment on since the pandemic started.

  3. Samantha needs a short course in cyber security & social engineering

  4. I'm no longer waiting for the GRANT LOAN because I earn $56,700 every 21days recently

  5. Great idea. Pass you feminist studies debt on to your grandchildren. What could possibly go wrong?

  6. 90% of you who have borrowed money for school will never use your degree. This has to be the stupidest generation I’ve ever seen. College is not necessary anymore. Work ethic is all that matters

  7. If you have to call your woman to vet your use of money then you have utterly failed as man, and failed at life. Pah-thetic!!

  8. 👆🏼favoritism 🤦🏻💯

  9. Hilarious that you think people will actually get any money 💰 🤣🤣🤣 courts will block president potatoes order.

  10. Aren't the student loan businesses the real scammers.

  11. Senator Bernie Sanders wanted wallstreet to paid for it but Biden would not because they are his big donors

  12. Where was all the boomer crybabies when the government bailed out the big banks? Crickets…..

  13. don't you guys think its weird that boomers walked right into their high paying jobs and then arbitrarily decided that if anyone wanted to come and take it they had to go into massive amounts of debt to do it?

  14. If all these student loans hadn't been approved years ago some colleges wouldn't went out of business or at the very least the price of a college education wouldn't have skyrocketed….

  15. Sell that ring and pay off some debt.🤔

  16. Can we also get a mortgage forgiveness plan? A lot of people chose to buy homes, but we should also make that other peoples' responsibility right? The administration is just making it rain!

  17. When will us folk who didn’t take such a high risk gamble going to be rewarded for our fiscal prudence?

  18. It's good that the news warn people about scammers.

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  21. Greedy lazy americans expecting taxpayers to sponsor their lives 🤣🤣🤣

  22. This is a lie, you have to already have paid half of your loan so if your fresh out of school you can forget it. This only helps 40+. Also only for government employees. So Biden is just pretending to do stuff for poor people.

  23. Not my loan not my responsibility

  24. You took the responsibility to go into debt to go to school, now get a job and pay that obligation.

  25. Shout out to George Floyd on 888 days of sobriety. It took some tough love but he did it. Say his name liberals! Where’s Jackie?????