Ever Met a Person Falsely Claiming To Be A Member of Your Org?

KSUViolet06 · #1 06-22-2004, 05:56 PM

Hey guys! As you can tell, I love questions. So, ever met someone falsely claiming to be XYZ? How did you find out they weren't? Is there anything one can really do about this?

I'll post my fake-XYZ story later, kinda long.

Kevin · #2 06-22-2004, 06:05 PM

Yep, at least I think so. The other night, one of my younger brother's friends was in town. He claimed to be a Sigma Nu. Earlier that day, my younger brother had tried to show me that he knew our handshake. He showed me something that was close (but no cigar). Then his friend later that day gave me the exact same close handshake and claimed to be a Sigma Nu.

I called BS on him of course and he accused me of being a fake or something. I asked him for his badge # which he didn't remember. I know the chapter that he claimed to be from. Those guys introduce themselves by name and badge #.

Nothing you can do except laugh it off, let 'em know it's pretty lame to be trying to be something that they'll never be...

What else is there to do?

Optimist Prime · #3 06-22-2004, 06:56 PM

Yeah.

TheEpitome1920 · #4 06-22-2004, 07:00 PM

It didn't help that she claimed to be from a chapter that was only about 2 hours away. Perps need to understand that someone somewhere knows somebody.

APhi Sailorgirl · #5 06-23-2004, 04:09 PM

This was a few years before me, but a girl claiming to be an A-Phi came to my chapter and was even elected President. She initiated a class (I know some of those sisters) and then apparently everyone found out. So there is definitely a composite with no President for one year.

She did transfer in (as far as I remember), and we haven't had any transfers while I was in. Guess just shows you have to do all your hw and paperwork.

I just feel bad for those sisters because they felt violated by being initiated by her and she wasn't a sister.

_Lisa_ · #6 06-23-2004, 04:21 PM

There is a girl that I've run into several times at LCC (Lexington Community College) that wears Sigma Kappa shirts & whatnot & says she is a member of the Georgetown chapter. I know she isn't a sister 'cause she thinks our symbols are pearls (really the heart & dove), our flowers are carnations (its really the violet), our colors are really pink & purple (instead of lavender & maroon) & she thinks our philanthropy is Breast Cancer. I mean really-this is all information she could've taken off our web site if she really wanted to be a poser I don't know why she didn't!

But in all seriousness, I know for a fact she isn't 'cause I've looked her name up in the sister directory & it isn't there.

Firehouse · #7 06-23-2004, 04:34 PM

I think there have been people on GreekChat claiming to be members of fraternities and I suspect they are not.

valkyrie · #8 06-23-2004, 04:37 PM

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Originally posted by Firehouse
I think there have been people on GreekChat claiming to be members of fraternities and I suspect they are not.

I'm sure this is probably true. I'd love to find out who, though.

mu_agd · #9 06-23-2004, 04:40 PM

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Originally posted by valkyrie
I'm sure this is probably true. I'd love to find out who, though.

fine, i'll admit it, it's me! i'm a fake alpha gam!

aephi alum · #10 06-23-2004, 04:43 PM

APhi Sailorgirl - wow, that's some story. I know my jaw is on the floor here somewhere...

At the same time (although I am so wrong for saying this), I can just picture her at initiation. "Now I will reveal the secret meaning of our letters... uhh, LINE!"

Haven't encountered a perp yet, but you can bet I'd do my homework before revealing any privileged information.

Nikki_DZ · #11 06-23-2004, 04:45 PM

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Originally posted by mu_agd
fine, i'll admit it, it's me! i'm a fake alpha gam!

Me, too!

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SiKeS · #12 06-23-2004, 06:27 PM

Back in highschool (not too long ago for me) I remember seeing a lot of guys wearing shirts with a fraternity's greek letters (i've seen sigma nu, pike, farmhouse and ag sig)

This was even at the beginning of the schoolyear so obviously they weren't members and theres a pretty good chance they hadn't signed because it was so early in the year...

I was never sure if they had brothers in those fraternities or whatever, but many I'm assuming went to our local greek shop or a greek website and ordered the letters... And started strutting around school w/ em.

I was still in HS and couldn't prove anything so i just sort of shook my head and walked off

Thats as close as I've seen to someone pretending to be part of an org they're not..

-Matt

Rudey · #13 06-23-2004, 06:39 PM

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Originally posted by Firehouse
I think there have been people on GreekChat claiming to be members of fraternities and I suspect they are not.

Alumni initiates maybe so they don't know how greek life is at the undergrad level?

-Rudey

steelepike · #14 06-23-2004, 07:05 PM

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Originally posted by SiKeS
Back in highschool (not too long ago for me) I remember seeing a lot of guys wearing shirts with a fraternity's greek letters (i've seen sigma nu, pike, farmhouse and ag sig)

-Matt

I wear my gamma phi shirts all the time just hoping someone will ask if i am one.

ok that might not be the real reason but hey a pink shirt is still cool

HPU PIKE · #15 06-23-2004, 07:27 PM

A good friend of mine has a brother (biological) that transferred in from Ole Miss. I can't prove that he wasn't actually a member of the fraternity he claimed to be from, but I know a lot of the things he told us were absolute BS. It almost seemed as if he didn't even try to make his lies believable. Here are just a few of the excerpts of the mountain of crap he tried to feed to everyone:

-he was a member of a 198 member pledge class. Yes, Ole Miss is big. But I would dare say there is a fraternity with over 198 members, let alone a single pledge class.

-Eli Manning (NFL) was supposedly his big brother. I have checked out XYZ's website and there is no indication that Eli Manning was ever a member of THAT group, not to mention being this chumps big bro.

-This XYZ was somehow able to book bands such as Blink182 and Sublime for their average weekend parties. I smell bullisht.

The lies go on and on and because of them, I tend to doubt that this guy was even a member of his alleged fraternity. The website also showed no evidence that he was ever there...but of course that isn't necessarily enough proof to say either way.

As for high school kids wearing letters...that's pathetic. I have heard of high school greek orgs, though mostly sororities.