Is this a scam? - Page 3

cirquelover · 10-06-2009, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Gn2Dlnd

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

Yeah, she was a lot of fun growing up with

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!

Strangler Lewis · 10-07-2009, 06:26 AM

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Originally Posted by cirquelover

Yeah, she was a lot of fun growing up with

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!

Screenplay!

katiesue · 10-06-2009, 10:09 AM

I'm with CP if you're that incoherant in an email I probably don't want to live with you.

SzczerbiakManiac · 10-06-2009, 12:32 PM

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.

Gemini Cricket · 10-06-2009, 12:41 PM

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!

Gemini Cricket · 10-06-2009, 01:21 PM

Green eggs and scam.

JWBear · 10-06-2009, 01:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Green eggs and scam.

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

Gemini Cricket · 10-06-2009, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by JWBear

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

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

Prudence · 10-06-2009, 07:49 PM

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.

Gemini Cricket · 10-06-2009, 08:28 PM

Scam the Eagle

10-06-2009, 10:09 AM	#3
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10-06-2009, 12:32 PM	#4
SzczerbiakManiac "ZER-bee-ak" Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,409	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. __________________
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10-06-2009, 12:41 PM	#5
Gemini Cricket ... Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 13,244	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!
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10-06-2009, 01:21 PM	#6
Gemini Cricket ... Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 13,244	Green eggs and scam.
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10-06-2009, 07:49 PM	#9
Prudence Beelzeboobs, Esq. Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Gavel - I haz it Posts: 6,287	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. __________________ traguna macoities tracorum satis de
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10-06-2009, 08:28 PM	#10
Gemini Cricket ... Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 13,244	Scam the Eagle
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