Matthew Lesko

Okay, so this guy wearing multi-color question marks (flair?) comes on and screeches the usual "I can hook you up with a government grant so you can build your own TIME MACHINE," and so forth. Now he's selling this otherwise free info direct to YOU for about $60! But that's not the worst part.

Matthew Lesko compiled a book of government grants, loans, and other programs that are available to individuals for various purposes. His book isn't updated very often, and as a result much of the information is out of date. he also doesn't provide, I gather, much information on how to actually apply for any of these grants.

Even if there are grants that are ideal for your situation, most likely 90% of the information in the book will not apply to you specifically.

"It should be noted that this book is intended for people in very specific areas, that it is meant to give information on acquiring money for a number of very specific groups. Because one person didn't find a group to fit them does not mean that another person will not; people seem to have an erroneous viewpoint of the book's purpose."

I felt this book never told me how those people I saw and heard about in the ads actually got their money. That makes me very skeptical about the whole thing. It seems all this book does is give you a list of addresses, and in most cases they didn't even specify what you needed to say in your letter when you wrote them. It was really quite a let down to see such a large book with no useful information inside it. The least Lesko could have done was specify what each address was for or how the people in his testimonials were able to get their money. It makes me questions whether these people ever got the money he claims.

Plus, in many cases, getting this "free money" is a lot more work than just knowing where to write. It just gets people's hopes up. I wish I never gave Lesko a dime of my money for such a waste of paper. With his book comes six hours of Matthew Lesko on tape.