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Originally posted by emb021
Sadly, yes. Never students, but two who claimed to be alumni.
One individual I met who claimed to be an alumni. I tried to get him signed up for our alumni association and become a Life Member but he was reluctent to do so. When I spoke about this person to another alumni who happened to know him, he knew that this individual had falsely claimed other things about himself. So I called our National Office to verify his membership. No record was found.
Due to this, the alumni association I am with verifies the membership of anyone who wants to join.
Later I met another person who claimed to be an alumni. He atleast was able to give me the handclasp and knew his chapter letters, but following our process, I checked him out. Again, no record. But in this cause what has happened is some chapters that are shutdown keep operating and many people think they members but they aren't because there is no record of them at our National Office. This is sad because these people are not necessarily falsely claiming to be Brothers, but are denied the right to do so because of the chapter they joined was either shutdown or failed to send in their paperwork.
Bottom line, you should be able to verify the membership of such people. They hopefully have membership cards, and you should be able to contact your National Office to verify their membership.
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How many orgs have membership cards? When a Lambda Chi friend of mine showed me his I was a bit surprised, as Kappa Sig doesn't not have them. We got membership certificates, but nothing we could carry with us.
Luckily (as I know of) I've never encountered anyone faking to be a Kappa Sig. Then again I've never communicated sensitive information to anyone that I didn't absolutely know was a brother.