The Broncos’
VOICE
SI
April, 1994
Volume III Issue ^
Fraud!!!
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I’d like to take the space to explain this
in full, but the basic message is too impor
tant:
People out there are trying to hurt you.
They are trying to steal your money, your
time, and your life.
This you probably know.
However, the specifics are always the prob
lem; Who, Where, How?
Here are the specifics.
A scam “company” that goes by the names:
Progressive Media
Student Services
Cruise Employment Services, and
International Employment Group
has taken to distributing poster-ads on col
lege campuses.
All of their claims are false. Do no business
with them.
We at the Broncos’ Voice have received
an ad from these people, but, aware of their
unethical “business” practices, would not run
it
In a letter received at the Broncos’ Voice
office, an article from the Seattle Times
chronicled the desperation of seven men who
were lured to Seattle by the above con men.
I have called this group, under the pretense
of applying for woric as an English teacher in
Japan. Teaching English in Japan is a dream
of mine, and the easiest way to sucker a man
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is by playing to his dreams. A very polite
young woman answered, asked some in
formation, name, address and the like, and
told me that the catalogue of companies
looking for students to teach would cost
$39,95 plus $5.00 shipping and handling.
A couple of days later I received a very of
ficial- looking postcard thanking me for my
interest and they anxiously awaited my cor
respondence. I laughed, thought, “I’ll bet”
and threw the postcard in the trash.
Robert A. Heinlein said, “quit look
ing for the best of it; thereafter [you can]
no longer be swindled.” Sounds pretty
cyincal to me, but my grandfather Norb
said, "Cons can even cheat a cynic. All they
have to do is thinly veil the worst of it The
cynic’ll see through it, and think himself
very clever. Then when the con’s really
got him, the cynic’ll see it was even worse
than he thought” Norb was a man of few
words, and this for him is a long-v«nded
explanation. However, conning a man is a
complicated matter.
Seven young men, now marooned at
the Union Gospel Mission in Seattle, an
swered one of the group’s other offers, is
sued under the name Student Employment
Services. After sending the $39.95 plus
$5.00 shipping and handling for the cata
logue, and buying a $431 one-way ticket
to Seattle, they arrived in Seattle, and be
gan to apply for the jobs.
No jobs were to be had. They be
lieved, as the company said, that
their plane fares would be reim
bursed. This turned out to be an
other lie.
Campus newspapers have
stopped accepting the ads this group
submits, no matter wiiat fee they of
fer. Therefore, the cons have taken
to posting these posters all over the
campus bulletin boards because,
supposedly, there is no way to regu
late it Supposedly.
I suppose they assume, even now
that we know their scam, we will
tolerate their bait on our campus. I
don’t think so.
I don’t want to see any of my
friends suckered and robbed and
stranded.
It is time for us to protect our own.
To tell the truth, I wouldn’t mind
if every one of these posters ended
up in the garbage.
©
The FSU Honda All-Star Challenge Team
Kneeling: G. Tyrone Battle and Albert Johnson; Back Row, left to right: Coach Gene Carraway, Timothy
Jessie, Clifton Cunningham, Dennis Allman, Xavier Priest, and Coach Jerry Williams. Hanging; Ren Hoik.
LA
or
Bust!
By Kelli Cardenas and Dennis Allman
The Fayetteville State Univer
sity All-Star Challenge team re
cently advanced to the
quarternnals In the Honda Cam
pus All-Star Challenge. The 1994
Southeast Sectional Tournament
was held at North Carolina A &
T, March 17-20. Sixty-four teams
competed nationwide and only
eight advanced to the
quarternnals, to be held May 20-
24, in Los Angeles. California.
Months of team practices and
diligent studying prepared the
players to match wits with some
of the brightest minds in the
Southeast region. This year's
team consists of Team Captain
Timothy Jessie. Dennis Allman,
Gerald Battle, Clifton
Cunningham. Albert Johnson,
and Xaver Priest. The team was
coached by Mr. Jerry Williams,
and Mr. Gene Carroway from the
Student Activities department;
they were assisted by photogra
pher Kelli Cardenas.
Everyone had his area of ex
pertise, but It was the obscure,
unknown bits of information
that saved us.. Some would say
"useless Information,” but the
fact Is, no information Is use
less. That’s what became evident
as the contest progressed- Every
continued on page 5
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