[TheMole]

Tales of the cognitive elite. "I mean I have a master’s degree from Harvard, I’m not stupid." Posted for edumacational purposes only.

[Support Free Republic]

SHOW ME THE MONEY !!!

[txzman]

"I mean I have a master’s degree from Harvard, I’m not stupid."

Oops, I forgot. I 'AM' a Democrat.....'ya think that has somethin' to do wit it?

[ccmay]

I mean I have a master’s degree from Harvard, I’m not stupid.

All master's degrees are not created equal, cupcake. What might yours be, social work, political science, women's studies, hmm?

Any undergraduate engineering major at a a state A & M school is more than a match for a Harvard grad student, outside the hard sciences and engineering. And probably a whole lot less likely to fall for a Nigerian scam, too.

-ccm

[HAL9000]

Wow, CAS is still going? Good for them.

[Axenolith]

It is immoral to allow a fool and their money to remain together...
Murphy

[Rocky]

Here's a clue, sweetheart: When you get an e-mail from Nigeria, delete it. Don't even think twice about it. (Duh, how many of these Nigerian scams do we have to hear about before everyone understands?)

[Jay D. Dyson]

Quoting from the article:
He said he was a used car and parts dealer with offices across Africa. He offered Donahue $6,000 for the car and helpfully suggested a way to speed up the transaction.

A client of his in the United States owed him $9,890. He would instruct the client to procure a cashier’s check for that amount and send it to Donahue.

That's where anyone with a lick of sense would have said, "Fine. You get the money from your client and you get me the cash from it, then we'll talk."

Small wonder she got suckered in the scam...

-Jay

[MediaMole]

"I mean I have a master’s degree from Harvard, I’m not stupid."

Education does not equal intelligence. Street smarts are inversely proportional to book smarts.

[ikka]

Last November? When did the Nigerian scam start?

Don't most people know that the thing to do is to call the bank the check is drawn on and read them the numbers on the bottom? They will check it out for you (though you might have to fax the check to them).

[Tall_Texan]

I have no rooting interest here. The Democrat chick from Harvard should have known better. The Credit Union pretends that just because their clerk used to be a checker at Safeway that she's entitled to give out financial advice with impugnity and the Nigerians...hey, mayne they could pay her back with yellowcake!

Bet that chick believes Saudis just love American flight schools too.

[Itzlzha]

"I mean I have a master’s degree from Harvard, I’m not stupid."

Which means she's good at basket weaving, chugging a beer,getting a job as a LIEberal hack aide and drooling on a Kennedy.

Otherwise, she is ill prepared for life. That degree ouitside D.C and $3.00 might get her a latte at Starbucks.

[arasina]

"Late last October, Donahue, who was at the time working on the staff of Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and now works for Sen. Dick Durban (D-Ill.)..."

She has obviously been "in the red" for some time now.

[witnesstothefall]

Yeah she's so clever she's going to do business with a used car salesman from Nigeria, over the Internet no less, and rely on the legal advice of a credit union teller?

Hahhhvad ain't what it used to be.

[McGavin999]

Sheesh, what kind of idiot didn't even think to call the issuing bank for make sure the funds were ligit? It would have taken a couple of minutes and a couple of dollars to save thousands.

[Eva]

This is a brave woman to make this public.

We had a problem with a PNC investment account when we closed it and had the funds transferred elsewhere. They sent $50,000 too much and it went unnoticed on this end because they sent the money in dribs and drabs over a two month period. PNC then waited two months to notify us of the error, after which the money had been re-invested in an IRA and demanded that the same certificates be returned, at a time when the stock market was plummeting.

It turned out ok, because the second bank ate any losses, but it was so aggravating. You can see why we were leaving PNC. We hear that PNC is notorious for these mistakes.