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samboct -> A potential scam aimed at educated, submissive men. (7/18/2008 10:29:40 AM)
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There's an interesting coincidence with a thread here (http://www.collarchat.com/m_2009042/tm.htm) discussing the correlation between submissive men and intelligence/education, and what I think is a scam I ran into a week ago on this board. So, I guess one more piece of evidence that shows that there's a widespread opinion that submissive men are well educated shouldn't go amiss.
About the scam-
Last week I responded to a profile that I gave a 5050 chance of being some type of scam. I get worried when profiles talk about compensating women for their time. I learned my lesson about how an appeal to "nice guys" to prove themselves by whipping out their wallets is a scam first hand- I consider it a valuable life lesson. But email is cheap, so I decided it was worth a quickie shot in case I was just being paranoid.
The profile mentioned that since she was only interested in intelligent, well educated men, that in order to proceed further, submissive men should take a quiz to prove themselves. To me, this sounds like a bit of a challenge and I was intrigued, so curiousity got the better of me. My initial communication was met with a simple response to move the conversation to Yahoo- also something of a flag for me. I find the email feature of CM works fine, thank you very much. The person at the other end also wrote that she resided in my hometown, a somewhat suspicious coincidence as well since it creates the impression that meeting face to face should be easy. Note that for whatever reason, the distance feature on her profile didn't work and no hometown was specified. So at this point I give it 9 out of 10 that it's some type of a scam, but after some miscommunication, I receive her "quiz"- reproduced here. It's clearly coursework.
"I want you to answer the following five (5) questions in two well detailed paragraphs each. If you’re not sure about something, I want you to look it up online and make sure you understand before you answer. Note: make sure everything you write is your own words, even if you look up the meaning of something; I still want you to write your own words. Remember to answer these questions in your own opinion, your own ideas and your own thoughts.
1. Define and discuss the feminization of poverty.
2. Identify and discuss the risk factors for child abuse.
3. Identify and describe the types of long and short term extramarital relationships.
4. Discuss the ten personal factors associated with divorce.
5. List and discuss the nine steps on building a successful stepfamily."
At this point, my worries were somewhat assuaged- the questions seem reasonably pertinent for someone who claims to be looking for a live in slave. So I dutifully answer the questions and await her response- which is now coming through on Yahoo. I thought I'd done pretty well, assuming she wasn't looking for a doormat, but I was a bit surprised when I got this reply. " Oh, I did not use it because it is a very serious assignment and you basically copied everything from sources like wikipedia which is not allowed. But thanks anyway...would you like to do another assignment instead?"
My response. " I'm a bit confused. I took your quiz because I thought it would allow you to get a sense of who I am. Had I known that you were planning on submitting what I wrote as your own work, I wouldn't have done it.
If I've misunderstood your intent, then please take another look at what I wrote. While I certainly used Wikipedia as a source for the first question, there is certainly enough additional material to show you that I answered the question in an original fashion- as I did for the subsequent questions as well.
Regards,
Sam"
Since my responses were my own although I certainly cited internet references, I knew her claims were spurious. Her comment that my responses were of no use to her, along with her offer to come up with another "quiz" lead me to conclude that she wasn't interested in finding a companion, she was interested in coming up with answers for a course. At the least, this is plagiarism, and what strikes me as more likely was that she was selling the answers for profit. Hence, since my responses were more tailored to piquing her interest rather than in getting an "A" in the course, they weren't valuable to her. (If indeed it is a she and not a he.) Here';s her final response to me. "What you wrote was garbage..I don't even like it..not going to use it...want nothing to do with it. If I wanted a copied/pasted junk, i'd do it myself.
Goodbye"
My conclusion at the end of this- some form of scam. Anybody think otherwise?
Sam
By the way- if relevant, I can post my answers to her "quiz", but I thought it would just add clutter.
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