We also got the $25,000 Grant notice from Mega Group of Holding in Brooklyn, NY. Out local Bank said the Check was a Forgery! Called the same guy, David Wolf (definitely Indian) he advised that there was no problem, they would send another check! HA I don't figure to ever hear from this bunch again..

I also got one of this Scams letter. the check was for 3,650.00 out of 25,00.00. for a home improvement grant the company name (MEGA GROUT OF HOLDING) Phone Number (289-892-2842) and the persons name was (David Wolf) he told me the same thing that the check was legit. I did deposit the check but i have not done nothing with it. I was lookin to see if it get's payed or if it WILL BOUNCED like a rubber fake check dose. Damn I hate a***ole like this that get your hopes up and then you find out it's all a SCAM. DON'T FALL FOR IT. IF YOU DID LIKE I HAVE deposit the check  AND SET ON IT do nothing with it until you see want happens. and if it's one of those fake rubber check. then you ant out of nothin. the bank will just take it back out. Don't just deposit a unknown check and pull it right back out. WAIT. It may take 3 or 4 day or a week and see want happans.

we received a check just like KenNCrys did.  We even called the bank where the check was written on.  The bank stated that the check was legit.
We were leary about having to send money before we received the grant.  DId this reverse look up and found your note.  Ours was the same thing in ever way.  So did what you did, shreded the check. thanks for posting.

We got a check for our home improvement grant for $4,855.55 out of a total $41,000.  We called the guy, who sounded foreign, and he told us to deposit the check and take out $3,150 and send $2,999 of that Western Union - the other $151 was to pay the Western Union Fee - to a person in New York, New York.  All of this sounded funny to us - a letter with a Canada stamp on it from a company called "Allied Group, Inc." (which does exist, although is in New Jersey and makes filters and mufflers) headquartered in New York with a check drawn on an Ohio bank with the Summit Brands logo on it (a company based in Indiana) and the phone number we had to call - 289-892-2842 - is in Ontario with the guy wanting us to send close to $3,000 to someone in New York.  We were ecstatic to see we won money, but when we put it all together along with calling the Better Business Bureau who said it was a scam - you'll lose money and could go to jail for participating in a foreign lottery, as they call it, so we shredded the check and the letter.  Bottom line, if it's from a foreign country it's fake, a scam, and not worth it.