One of my colleagues in [REDACTED] PhD program was also done dirty by a vindictive, unhinged ex-lover, who broke into his email account and sent a very naughty email to my colleague’s entire address book, which included friends, family, and all of his professional contacts. (Including me, which is how I know this story.) Vindictive ex-lover signed their own name to the naughty email.
My colleague was made aware of this almost immediately. He had to send a super-polite, super-concise, mega-professional damage control email to, again, his entire address book. Upon advice, he also forwarded the whole string to the vindictive ex-lover’s academic advisor.
The result was that vindictive ex-lover’s offer of admission to their own PhD program for the forthcoming year was straight-up revoked. The moral of the story is: you wanna sling shit, you’re just gonna get it all over yourself.
The girlfriend must have really low self-esteem to do that sort of thing to him - ruin his future livelihood! What she did was anything but a loving act. I hope he dumps her.
Just this week I’ve had 3 packages go missing. And a wedding invite show up a full 2 months after my friends mailed it. Snail mail isn’t exactly Bullet proof.
Abramovitz sued his ex-girlfirend, who didn’t bother to turn up in court to defend herself (honestly though, would you?)
This is quite the side point, however:
Hell yes, she should have turned up in court rather than accept a default judgement. Plenty of people have done much worse, hired a lawyer, and received a judgement better than the worst possible judgement, which is what you get when you don’t even show up. Where were her parents? The expense of a lawyer would have been well worth it.
Agree. A school that accepts two students each year should call both successful applicants ahead of written acceptance to advise, “Be on lookout for an important notice. Congratulations.”
The fake rejection would’ve then made no sense, and even just a missing acceptance note would’ve prompted the student to call the school.
Long before email was a thing, the same thing went on with physical mail. The “Spanish Prisoner” scam, which is identical in principle to current Nigerian “419” e-mail scams, originated in physical mail in the 19th century. Similar scams went on in the 1980s with faxes. It isn’t about the medium, it’s that there will always be people who are both greedy and gullible and people willing to prey on them.
Yeah, but several of the MRA dudes actually know someone who almost, sort of, had a girlfriend at some point in their lives, so it’s not as if they don’t have some authority on the subject.
