doesnt the fact that it says North America Scholarship Consortium instead of North American Scholarship Consortium tip you off

AHAAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!! Your so smart you fell for a scam...i hope you gave them your social number, if not you could just give it to and i'll print you a certificate that says your turbo-genius!

OK, I'm the OP, let me explain why I fell for it: -I had very recently received invitations to join two legit honor societies (one I was just inducted to tonight at a formal ceremony at my school, the other has regular meetings and community service projects) -Believe it or not, I do actually have a 4.0 GPA as a junior and miscellaneous other qualifications, so being "accepted" to this honor society didn't seem to be a stretch or anything -As I'm ridiculously busy right now, I didn't Google it first or even look too deeply at their website, I just quickly completed the "application" (you go on their website, apply, and then wait to hear from them) which was free Once I actually got the "acceptance" I called my mom and told her about it. I got off the phone with her and Googled it to get more info about it (I'd never heard of it) and discovered it was a scam. I'm glad I did so because their "initiation fee" was 68 bucks, and I hadn't given them credit card info or anything yet. Obviously I felt stupid; I called my mom back a second later and told her. I'm just glad I didn't COMPLETELY fall for it... lol. I should have taken more time at the start, but #22 is right; I'm just lucky I didn't lose 68. I lost 10 minutes of time and a chunk of my pride. :P I was also pretty pissed/disappointed, but it's OK; I'm in two ACTUAL honor societies, so whatever... I don't need a fake one. ;)

You couldn't just find something meaningful to put on your resume?

Actually, I have other stuff I can put on a potential resume for sure, but in this economy it seems it's always best to have as much stuff as you can to put you ahead of others...

psh. i'd still put it on a resume. i had all sorts of who's who crap on my college applications.

PS- Both of the legitimate honor societies that I'm in also had similar initiation fees, so that didn't sound out of the ordinary either. And yes, I am actually sure that those two honor societies are legitimate. :) And no, I'm not going to put this fake one on a resume. :)

I thought this FMl was a scam. -_-

clever user name. did you seriously just create it for this particular FML?

I assume you mean the "AlmostScammedOutOf68Bucks" rather than "Supersonic323"... The former isn't an account, it's just the name that I typed in when they asked for a name. The latter is an account I just created to respond to comments.