Today, I found out that, after offering to fill out my student aid application for me, my mother sent all of my personal information to a scam site instead. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I discovered that when my parents offered to help me pay for college, what they really meant is they would get the forms for me to apply for student loans. FML
Today, I found out I'm on wage garnishment because my mother, who took out a student loan for me back in '05, didn't pay off the $2015 owed when she said she would. I got screwed over financially because of her. FML
Today, I spent many hours applying for many scholarships. When the sites asked for my e-mail, to let me know if I'd won, I gave them my school e-mail, one that I often check. I then come to find out the school doesn't let e-mails from outside the school system be sent or received. Lost thousands of dollars as far as I know. FML
Today, I couldn’t figure out why I was getting so much spam in my professional email. My own mother thought it would be a hilarious “prank” to sign me up for a ton of random mailing lists. I missed an amazing job opportunity due to her bullshit. FML
Today, I found out that the $200 I reluctantly gave to my mother so she could rent a house was paid to a scammer. Now she wants to live with me, in my one bedroom apartment. FML
Today, I found out that the $100,000 scholarship I "won" was a scam. I found it on a website. When I won, they asked for a "processing fee" that I begged my brother to let me borrow. The website has vanished into internet wasteland and I have no way of paying back the money. FML
Today, I found out my mom took around $2,500 from my savings account to pay off my sister's college tuition. She recently flunked out of her studies and won't be returning to college anyway. FML
Today, I found out that my dad, thinking it was an advertisement, threw away a letter from the college I applied to. FML
Today, I went to apply for classes at a college my parents signed me up to do dual credit with. Too bad they used my sister's social security number so I don't get credit for my old classes and my new application got thrown out. FML
Today, my mother came over again to help me work on my Student Aid application. She also brought over the savings bonds that she has been accumulating since I was born to help pay for college. Turns out they won't reach maturity until I'm thirty. She never bothered to check out this fact. I'm screwed for college. FML
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fancyclown 9
"But honey, the nice man in the email said I was the lucky visitor!"
ByronJess 17
That's why you always handle that kind of stuff yourself.
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SilverHand 5
Call your bank/credit card company and tell them what information she sent. they can offer you ways to avoid further damages (like changing your account number). It's probably gonna cost you but not doing so is probably gonna cost much more. And everybody would you give the student a break? My father helps me fill forms all the time, I help him with translating stuff from English to our language... It's not lazyness, not everyone understands all the financial mambo jumbo in the application forms.
MuffinPrince 0
Nigeria has nothing on the international lotto. I win that every day... I just can't figure out how to claim :( Maybe this guys mom can send my information to them for me.
hateevryone 15
this is why you fill your own stuff out.
murdersquirrel 15
Student aid paid for some of my college, but you have to be poor to get anything. Or old. Didn't get shit til I was 27.
PaigeySlade 7
Ooo...lesson learned, dont let your mom send things for you anymore/:
mbakerii 0
Drag it out until 2014 just to piss her off!
brick_man33 14
now theres probably some student in nigeria with your name.....
KiddNYC1O 22
Quick! Gather her information and send it to a scam site! No, I'm kidding. That's very unfortunate.
suguru 4
My mom almost signed me up for the paid service to fill out my Fafsa last year facepalm
angely_fml 4
You wil you now get you're share of money you inherited from a guy in India. Oh wait, that's an email scam.