School Scams

Does anyone else get these?

Every couple weeks or so I'll get a letter saying I've been accepted to a National Committee of Honor Students or something along that line. It talks about how I could get scholarships and stuff and how being accepted to this Committee looks great on college applications and other crap. The letter signed by some "executive" says that since I've been nominated I have to send in 50$ and then can go to some thing where they give out scholarships and stuff.

Obvious scam. I get them so often. Sad thing is people probably send in the money.

Discuss: Scams you've gotten over email or mail talking about being selected to something that will get you scholarships
and Scams you get sent to you in general, may it be about a "get rich quick" thing or whatever.

Yeah, who doesn't get those.

The most common scam I get though is about how I have won the international lottery, or where my long lost relative has died and given me his fortune.
I actually read some of them just for the heck of it.

yeah,thats what fills my inbox

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Originally Posted by chowchig

Yeah, who doesn't get those.

The most common scam I get though is about how I have won the international lottery, or where my long lost relative has died and given me his fortune.
I actually read some of them just for the heck of it.

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XD I've gotten those too, it's really humorous to read, and see how they like make you send in money so you can "get your relatives fortune" XD

It's not a scam but I get the ones that say you can go to [insert country] for 2 weeks. And it's expensive as hell. Or this national honors society thing my 7th grade teacher got me into where I am in some kind of special yearbook thing. Ended up just sucking up some of my parents money haha. We did get a yearbook though. Of people I don't know or care about. But it had my picture.

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Originally Posted by Gabe

It's not a scam but I get the ones that say you can go to [insert country] for 2 weeks. And it's expensive as hell. Or this national honors society thing my 7th grade teacher got me into where I am in some kind of special yearbook thing. Ended up just sucking up some of my parents money haha. We did get a yearbook though. Of people I don't know or care about. But it had my picture.

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Yeah I've gotten non-scam ones too. But it's like you said: Come visit and get an experience over the summer for 3000 dollars only.
I don't have that kind of money. XD

But those are kind of more disappointing because they're legit, and you just don't have enough money. XD

Well mail, and e-scams are always gonna be around. I never heard of one targeting high schoolers, but its obvious why they target high school teens, you are worried about life after school, college and everything after wards and have no real direction. So since high schoolers are simple minded and stupid, they send in money. For every 5 people that throw it away and think its stupid, there are 30 that will fall for it, and 1:6 ratio isnt good.

Ive gotten emails from somce billionaire prince in africa, but I knew it was a scam when I first got it in 2003 when he said he was a billionaire in Africa....First off if i were a billionaire, I wouldnt be in africa. i would get on the first mobile object to get the fuck away from there. Just saying.

And anything that asks you for money and you think its not a scam, you're a moron.

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Originally Posted by ~Souleater~

Well mail, and e-scams are always gonna be around. I never heard of one targeting high schoolers, but its obvious why they target high school teens, you are worried about life after school, college and everything after wards and have no real direction. So since high schoolers are simple minded and stupid, they send in money. For every 5 people that throw it away and think its stupid, there are 30 that will fall for it, and 1:6 ratio isnt good.

Ive gotten emails from somce billionaire prince in africa, but I knew it was a scam when I first got it in 2003 when he said he was a billionaire in Africa....First off if i were a billionaire, I wouldnt be in africa. i would get on the first mobile object to get the fuck away from there. Just saying.

And anything that asks you for money and you think its not a scam, you're a moron.

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Well put Souleater.

But, I still feel bad for the people who send in the money. Do people ever send out letters/emails saying to beware of these kind of scams? I mean if they don't, I could see how an "idiot" would fall for them.

I havent got these yet, but my dad has got.

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Originally Posted by ksrocks333

Well put Souleater.

But, I still feel bad for the people who send in the money. Do people ever send out letters/emails saying to beware of these kind of scams? I mean if they don't, I could see how an "idiot" would fall for them.

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Any person can request information about it. Just go into your administration office and ask for information, then bring it up in class, so the people in your class are warned of what can happen and how to be safe.

And In fact, there are DoD and police offices whos main job is to send out emails warning you to keep any and all information secure and to not fall for scams on the internet and to not send money to anything if you arent 100% sure and have proof of where it is going.

And also its kinda common sense. If its something free, why do they need money to send you something that is supposed to be just that, free? Sometimes its just common sense, if its free, it doesnt require money to be sent anywhere to get it.