College Students Lie to Businesses to Get Information for Class Projects

Often our company catches college studentsis interesting in that this is a Christian Ladder Day
pretending to be customers so they may getSaints College, which stands on its morals. I am
pertinent information to complete their businessnot impressed with liars or those up and coming
class projects. These projects are often donestudents who would lie and then preach morals of
along with others in a team or group effort, whichthe Christian Faith; "Why you hypocrite!"
are designed to simulate the formation of aThe individual who contacted me; I asked him
company from seed to weed."Hey Bob, regarding this business, are you sure
Often these students will get their classmates,you are really wanting to do this, as you are a
boyfriends or girlfriends to assist them in theBio-chemistry major? Are you sure you are not
collection of this data. Basically these studentsjust doing a class project in your accounting
conspire to deceive and misrepresent which isclass?"
annoying and often harassing to business owners,Additionally in good faith I sent him an email with
as they use fake names or friends to lie. Someattached spread sheets to simplify his efforts in
companies end up divulging information whichcase it was a class project. Indicating that the
maybe proprietary thinking these fraudulent"royalty payments" would notapplicable in for his
students are buyers of a certain product orhypothetical business. Further leaving him a way
service.out having caught him in his lie, I said; "Or if you
In our company I usually catch them at theirreally are going to do this then you will be doing in
deception, misrepresentations and lies. I think it ison your own so you can delete those too figures
an old habit from franchising, as about 35% ofand anything else that is not applicable as per your
our inquiries were fake and from competitors. Inparticular plan."
my retirement I notice they still contact me andWhereas, I made sure to use the most possible
lie, now I just help people for fun, but only if theyfairness under the circumstances I was lied to by
are worthy, otherwise I am semi-retired theseBYU Hawaii Business Students and therefore I
days.believe that the BYU Hawaii has some ethical
Dear college students; "Liars are not Worthy"issues it needs to work thru and I am completely
they are sub-human. I am utterly disappointed inappalled and demand an apology and a little more
you. Additionally a student had contacted meoversight to insure this takes place. Consider this
from the Brigham Young University in Hawaii. Thisin 2006.