Word: scammed
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Your 765-word plea for tuition help notes that your mother is handicapped and your father has three jobs. Do you worry your e-mail looks like a scam? I definitely see why people might think it's a scam. They can check it out; they can call NYU's financial-aid office if they want ... I was trying to make it seem as unscam-like as possible. Which is kind of difficult when you're asking for money...
...mail looks like a scam: "I have to come up with big-time cash," writes Max Stephenson. The 18-year-old is headed for New York University, he explains, but his mom is on disability, his dad works three jobs, and all his grants and loans only cover half of the school's $50,000 annual tab. So to cover the gap, he's hoping 10,000 friends of friends of friends will each put $2.50 in the mail or send the money via PayPal. "If you're worried I am one of those internet rip-off artists, call...
...precipitous drop in values is apparently what spurred Rivera, Louisma and their associates to come up with their alleged scam. Here's how it seems to have worked...
...Watching the junior Senator from New York, I was of two minds. My high-minded policy brain was, of course, appalled. The gas-tax holiday was a scam. It had been tried at various times - Barack Obama had voted for a local version in the Illinois legislature - and prices never came down. The oil companies and gas-station owners simply pocketed the difference. Clinton's "responsible" version of the plan was also a scam. She wanted to pay for it with a "windfall profits" tax on the oil companies, but she had earlier, and more responsibly, called for the elimination...
...Debate on Clean Energy While Michael Grunwald's article on the emerging ethanol industry was both chilling and truthful, it's damaging to demonize the global effort to develop clean fuels as "myth," "scam" and "hype" [April 7]. It is no myth that thousands of scientific teams are working feverishly to create biofuels such as ethanol, biodiesel and biobutanol from nonfood plants grown on land unsuitable for food production. We could not have landed on the moon without first launching at Kitty Hawk. We are getting better at this every day. Mark Beyer, Detroit...