I appreciate all your responses.

I was 99% sure it was bullshït, but there was a tiny little voice inside my head that wondered if it might be legit.

That voice has been silenced. :)

Boy, I was all loaded up with a bleeding Vikings reference but this stopped me cold in my tracks! WHAT!?!?

Everyone (except Lisa) sing along:

Scam! Scam! Scam! Scam!
Lovely scam! Wonderful scam!
Scam sca-a-a-a-a-am scam sca-a-a-a-a-am scam.
Lovely scam! Lovely scam! Lovely scam! Lovely scam!
Scam scam scam scam!

Yeah, she was a lot of fun growing up with :eek:

Sadly two years later she came to visit and we went with her to Iowa and Cananda to see relatives. She abandon us in the middle of Canada. My Dad was thrilled when he got that phone call too! He wired us enough money to buy bus tickets, it's a Loooong way across Canada, and had $20 left for food for the three day trip. That was a fun time! I've never seen so many drunk Indians in my life and every bus smelled worse than an old ashtray! Some of the bus stations in the middle of Canada were beyond scary places too!

Green eggs and scam.

Whoa dude... Just noticed your avatar... Freaky hands!

Hee hee. They're just really close to the camera. It's a gripping photo.

:D

I agree that there are too many questionable issues for this to be anything but a scam.

However, especially in the sciences, it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that someone with atrocious grammar would be pursuing a master's degree. A friend of mine was a TA while getting her PhD and her lab students were shocked - SHOCKED - that she would mark them down for grammar errors. And she only took points off for the really, really bad ones; the merely crappy emerged unscathed, free from the taint of grammatical improvements. Truly, an alarming number of people are convinced that written communication is simply not worth the investment.

Scam the Eagle

GC has had a slow day.

:D